Louise Hearman
Vizard Collection
oil on composition board
92 x 78 cm
Purchased 1997
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and Tolarno Galleries
Photography: Robert Colvin
Turbulent, billowing skies, blond ethereal children, shaded roads, hovering, spectre-like shapes and amorphous animals recur in Hearman’s paintings. Her imagery allows us to glimpse a world of infinite possibility. This is not a world where the viewer is offered an invitation to “step right in”. There is a gossamer-thin but seemingly invincible barrier between us and this seductive other place.1
One can sense here the meaningful presence of Leonardo, Goya, Fuseli, Monet, Redon, Böcklin, Felician Rops, Franz von Stuck, Jean Delville and the Pre-Raphaelites as well as Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin.2
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