JUNE TUPICOFF

WHAT IS INTRIGUING ABOUT YOUR WORK IS ITS range, from muted abstracts to detailed landscapes.

I am searching for a closer reality, a sensation that is denser than abstract. I grew up in Gippsland, Victoria, looking at the Strzelecki or Baw Baw Ranges with their deep fogs, snows and frosts. That atmosphere instigated a sense of oneness, if I can put it that way, in my memory. I started painting in an abstract way, which I very much like. More recently I started on a different, more intricate, tack. It might have to do with a sense of place. I always told myself that I would like to marry the abstraction and the intricacy.

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