Andy Sumner 🎨

Hey thanks! It'd be a stressful thing to do alone, but with friends it's a wonderful experience.

At long last, the Expanse exhibition is on, today through Sunday, in the shell of the old observatory on Mt Stromlo Canberra, featuring many of my recent paintings and work by my artist friends Cassandra and Gautam. This has been an absolute labour of love. If you're in the area please come visit!

This magical location will soon host "Expanse", the art event of the year - you don't want to miss it!

Mt Stromlo, Canberra, June 20-22

A quick preview of my solo show "Uplands" opening tonight at the Capital Wines gallery, 13 Gladstone St Hall ... all welcome!

Hey just a quick reminder - this coming Friday, 5:30pm, Capital Wines at Hall, ACT Australia... the premier event of the year - the opening of my latest solo exhibition featuring the best of my art from 2024.

You'd be mad to miss it. Seriously. Never forgive yourself.

Hey just a quick reminder - this coming Friday, 5:30pm, Capital Wines at Hall, ACT Australia... the premier event of the year - the opening of my latest solo exhibition featuring the best of my art from 2024.

You'd be mad to miss it. Seriously. Never forgive yourself.

"A lone road train in the channel country" is synthetic polymer on 130x180cm unstretched canvas/linen blend, part of the upcoming Expanse exhibition, 20-22 June, Yale Columbia Dome, Canberra.

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I'm glad you're here Quin! Your posts are so uplifting, I've really missed them ... been away, hunkering down a while, alone though which is pretty silly. It's easy to feel isolated when we isolate ourselves.

Where a desert creek meets Lake Torrens in South Australia, it spreads into a marshy delta where life erupts in a profusion of colour, even venturing out onto the salt of the lake - it's tenacious, beautiful and magnificent.

Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched linen/canvas blend

Just finished a painting and wanted to share a detail closeup shot - it's night here, so I'll take proper photos in the morning.

The shell of the old observatory on Mt Stromlo #Canberra will come to life on the weekend of 20-22nd June, as my friends Cassandra Dove, Gautam Jhanjee and I fill it with a spectacular collection of paintings.

I'd love to see you there!

My upcoming solo exhibition, featuring a large body of my work from 2024.

Uplands is heavily inspired by Canberra, with its quiet suburbs nestled in the valleys under the wild spaces of hills and mountains..

If you'd like a personal tour of the exhibition, please DM!

You too my friend! 🤗

The older I get, the less I realise I know about anything, and the less wisdom too...

Lovely photo Quin! :)

Into the wilderness Part 1 of 2

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Then it's a good day 💕

That feeling of a vast expanse that stretches out beyond where the eye can see. Inspired by a tiny, isolated, treeless opal-mining town deep in the South Australian desert out west of the huge dried salt pan that is Lake Torrens.

Andamooka
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched canvas

Oh i'm certain there's a dragon there...

This is beautiful Quin 🤗

A huge painting with warm, vivid colours and contrasts. Stream beds meander across a desert viewed from above, past sandy plains and the twisted foundations of ancient mountains, until they reach the salty embrace of a vast dry lake.

This last painting in my huge four part polyptych inspired by the desert north of the Flinders Ranges, is about endings. Streams wander into the scene, past dunes and the remnant foundations of ancient mountains, then meet the salty embrace of the lake. I hope it conveys what I wanted to express!

Well their feelings are far more important, it's true.

Aww happy birthday Suey!

Mardale Corpse Road, runs over mardale common, Cumbria. (This is where my PhD is based). There is the seeding grass of late summer at either side of the grassy path and beyond, the fells climb up.

I dreamed of the corpse road. Of water that spirits can not cross. Of licks of cold fire. Of ghosts that return when they're faced back home.

And I dammed the streams. And I turned you softly to face me as you left. And I opened my door in the cool night air and waited.

This is beautiful Jane

Happy for you Quin 🤗❤️ ... I can imagine so many of your short stories flowing from this place. I still miss them, haha 😊

I guess there's worse ways to spend a Sunday morning 😊

Exploring the shell of the Yale Columbia Dome, an observatory on Mt Stromlo in Canberra destroyed in the 2003 bushfire.

The quiet space with its looming textured walls and empty windows overlooking spectacular mountains are perfect for my popup exhibition in June called Expanse.

Details to come!

Just taking a breather is all? 😊

Weren't they just! And the story unfolding like the layers of an onion ... way deeper than expected at the beginning and so much more to explore.