Various exhibitions when I happened to visit, including one on Frederick Strange, a colonial painter of Launceston (I liked the watercolours more, but it was the oil paintings that drew me more deeply into imagining what it would actually have been like to see and live in 19th century Tasmania), and 'Art Quilt Australia 2017', the main room of which I walked straight through on first pass, so uninterested was I, but on a more careful look, lots of them proved worth the closer examination, with the best being genuinely painterly.
Below: Alison Withers, "Cassidy's gap"; Jill Rumble, "Telling secrets III"; Louise Wells, "Dusk"; Cherry Johnston, "Circles of life"; Brenda Gael Smith, "Flourish".
Below: Alison Withers, "Cassidy's gap"; Jill Rumble, "Telling secrets III"; Louise Wells, "Dusk"; Cherry Johnston, "Circles of life"; Brenda Gael Smith, "Flourish".
