Feeling into Form by Kathryn Dolby

Please join us to celebrate the opening on Thursday 12th September, 5:30-7 pm at Otomys. 

'Feeling into Form is an exploration of the intuitive in the create process...where the subconscious and the spirit have a chance to find form'. - Kathryn Dolby 

Working from the rural opulence of Northern Rivers, NSW in Australia, Kathryn Dolby has developed her unique studio practice and approach to landscape painting in considering the quietude and beauty of her natural surrounds.

Her gestural figuration and innate understanding of colour permit her to create psycho-geographic portraits of the flora and fauna which she encounters in the bush and on her travels. Through isolating the essence of a scene and experimenting in formal play, Kathryn Dolby’s art is not only evocative in terms of primal nostalgia but also emotionally charged in her layered brushwork with an intense, if not uncanny, paint palette. 

Through her career, Dolby has emerged as a leading emerging landscape painter in the Australian contemporary art scene, accruing honours and awards including the Hurford Harwood Portrait Prize, the Waverley Art Prize and the BAM Art Prize in 2020. Kathryn Dolby was also announced as a Wollumbin Art Prize 2024 Finalist.

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