This series is evolving out of my interest in music.  When listening to music I start to feel the emotion of it, what the instruments can say, alone or together.  From this feeling I started to paint, and gradually the series has developed so that each painting is about what each instrument is telling me, which is love, melancholy and all the feelings conveyed by the music and the musician.

I look into the silence produced by the music at the same time, and this fascinates me.  I convey that with the landscape, which can move or remain static.

I wish to capture something of the melancholy, and of life fully expressed in music, and the exuberant spirit of dancing.

My painting is a silent statement.


        " Gliding Across the Night ", Acrylic on canvas


        " Kinetic Dancer " , Acrylic on canvas


        " Murmur from afar ", Acrylic on canvas


        " Summer watlz ", Acrylic on canvas


Born: Chile
Arrived Australia: 1969

Education

1959- 1961 Studied Cinema and Photography at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile
1977-1981 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Alexander Mackie C. A. E.
( now C. O. F. A. )
1987 Master classes in painting with Nigel Thomson

Relevant employment history

1972-1977 Professional commercial photographer in photo studios in Sydney
1988 Professional assistant to the artist Ann Thompson

Solo Exhibitions

2003 ‘ Huidobro Revisited’, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown

1999 ‘ Light on Bergman’, Ewart Gallery, Willoughby

1998 Braemar Gallery, Springwood

1994 Braemar Gallery, Springwood

1992 ‘ Shadow Images’, Arthaus Gallery, Darlinghurst

1989 Fiveways Gallery, Paddington

1988 Fourteen Roses Gallery, Balmain

1988 The Works Gallery, College of Fine Arts. Curated by Nick Vickrey

Group Exhibitions

2005 Gallery 4a, Haymarket, Sydney. Members’ exhibition

2004 Gallery 4a, Haymarket, Sydney. Members’ exhibition

2004 Gallery 110 Crystal Street, Petersham

2003 Gallery 110 Crystal Street, Petersham

2002 Customs House, Sydney. Exhibition organised by the Chilean Embassy

2001 Terry Cutcliffe Gallery, Newtown

2001 ‘ Arte’, Spanish Cultural Society, Sydney

1991 Manly Art Gallery and Museum, curated by Nigel Thomson, artist

1986 Art Auction, Art Gallery NSW- by invitation
( to raise funds for the Art Gallery Society Bicentennial Sculpture Acquisition)

1986 Imprint Gallery, Surry Hills
( April, July and October)

1984 Mosman Art Exhibition,

1984 Berrima Art Exhibition,

1984 Sulman Art Award, Art Gallery of NSW

1983 Elimatta Gallery, Balmain

1983 Warringah Art Exhibition

1981 Cumberland Art Exhibition, Parramatta

Collections

Represented in private collections in Sydney and in C.O.F.A. Student Association collection

Publications

• C.O.F.A. Student Diary 1988
• ‘Earth, Light and Colour’
Blue Mountains Gazette (25th March, 1988)
• ‘Tres Artistas….Y Huidobro’
The Spanish Herald (12th December, 2003)
• ‘ Chilean Artists at Chrissie Cotter Gallery’
The Glebe Daily (17th December, 2003)