John Beard 'Adraga (Grey Blue)' minimalist

John Beard 'Adraga (Grey Blue)' minimalistBorn in Wales, John Beard is a prestigious Sydney and London based artist who specialises in abstraction and portraiture. At 19 years old, Beard won the Welsh National Art Scholarship, going on to study at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1993, Beard moved to Portugal where he resided close to Sintra on the north coast of Lisbon. It was there that he encountered the rock formation of Adraga a vision that would come to recur through his practice,

Ink wash on Fabriano 300 gsm paper

She has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne since 2009 and has been included in group exhibitions in Melbourne

he recalls this fame

sometimes fantastical

Steve Rosendale’s ‘Carte Blanche’ is named for the French phrase denoting complete liberty to act as one wishes

In ‘Untitled (Adrift)’

Dimensions: 44 x 29 cm

the city skyline is reduced to patches of silk against an azure sky

Presented in an Oxford Buckram presentation folder and printed on Magnami Incisioni 300gms paper

Part of the Girls and Flowers Portfolio

Reminiscent of a typically crowded Australian beach in the Summer-time

guiding the eye upward and through the canvas—like a cross-section of the land itself