THIERRY B GALLERY

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Thierry B. Portfolio
A Passion for Joyous Art. Thierry B. is like his art - colourful and passionate. To this is added a European elegance and social charm for which the French are so noted. To sum up his work in a few words is not an easy task. Yet, if you look at the man and listen to the artist, you are immediately impressed by his enthusiasm and passion for art. It is this creative passion and an enveloping search for joy and harmony that expresses itself so readily in all his art. David Thomas Fine Arts. Melbourne Australia

Laurent Filippini
Colours Of My Land - In his paintings, Laurent Filippini continues his journey of life and self-discovery using the Australian landscape as his metaphor. Born in Paris, he has embraced Australia as his country of choice and engages its colours and forms to explore both the outer reality and the progress of the inner being. The passion within his colours and the working of his heavily textured paint, plaster, and gesso with palette knives and combs reveals his love of the country's physical grandeur. Colours pulsate, textures attract, and the movement is always upwards. He presents the flatness of the landscape in its rarefied beauty of emptiness.

James Robertson
A World Of Striking Realism. Nothing has a single meaning, and the paradox of simplicity lies in its complexity. So it is with the paintings of James Robertson, who delights in images of disarming directness, readily accessible in their striking realism, yet given a twist or bite that turns a smile into laughter, and then a lot of after thought. In the plethora of visual images of this contemporary world, Robertson's paintings fascinate through their extraordinary illusionism - so real that they seem to reach beyond reality and, through their heightened perception, create a world of their own.

Patricia Heaslip
"Life Symbols" is a subject of epic proportions. Yet Heaslip walks her path with confidence and disarming response, calling up the most beguiling of colours and textures that positively seduce the eye in the exploration of the outer forms, revealing inner meaning and ethereal nuances of the celestial. There is the land and the sky - it is also the earth and the heaven, and the space between, which is the "meaning" of Feeling Earthed...

Barbara Carmichael
Journeys Of The Mind and Eye. The landscape has long been a favourite subject in art, sometimes peopled, but always reflecting some mood or aspect of the human condition. The sunrise speaks of a new beginning and the twilight of the declining day, of rest, passing or eternal. Barbara Carmichael, in her landscapes, reaches beyond the mere topographical scene to capture what she calls the spirit of the landscape - from the gentle mystery of daybreak or mind-tingling frosts, of emotions roused by winds and white-capped waves, to tranquil moonlight. Carmichael paints in a semi-figurative style, which lends itself to the more abstract notions, of the intuitive response in paint to that which the eye cannot see, yet the senses and the spirit readily perceive.