Cessnock Regional Art Gallery will launch a new exhibition that focuses on different interpretations of landscape.
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The exhibition, entitled Approaches to Landscape, begins Tuesday and runs until March 31.
It shows the work of six artists - Julia Francis, Jacquie Mather, Jenny Dimmock, Rebecca Rath, Guntis Jansons and Richard Stern. It has been curated by vice chair of Cessnock Regional Art Gallery, James Whitington.
Mr Whitington said the variety of approach demonstrated the ability of landscape painting as a genre to convey the inner self.
"Landscape painting has survived, and continues to be as relevant today as it ever was to combine inner and outer reality," he said.
Landscape painting has survived, and continues to be as relevant today.
- Curator James Whitington
In the exhibition, six talented artists show images that respond to the environment they live in, and make the creative connection from inner self to their surrounding landscape. The work reflects that people of the Hunter live in a less human constructed world than their big city counterparts.
Works include an uninhibited sky and sea, a joy in hills, an intimacy in shaded woodland and a celebration of wildlife. The official opening is on 5pm Wednesday.
