Exhibition Opening: On water - by Lorraine Bower

Lorraine Bower’s exhibition explores some of the myriad moods and facets of the ocean and waterways around the east coast of Australia.

The artist has attempted to convey the spirit, rather than realistic likenesses of locations depicted in the smaller works - ideas that impressed me on my sailing trips and dwelt in my memory. These works mostly look out from the shore, out to sea, and take a much more expansive view than a sailor might experience, so very close to the ocean.

The Exhibition provides you with a glimpse and a connection into this watery world that has fascinated and preoccupied me over so many years.

About the Artist

Lorraine Bauer is an Inner West artist whose semi abstract paintings focus on the forests, waterways and dry inland areas of NSW and Queensland. She is the 2022 recipient of the EDGE, Inner West painting prize at the Glebe Art Show. Her career was in education, where she taught design and theory of design in the TAFE and Higher Education systems, and she is now the director of a small organization that has run a nationally recognized children’s art competition for the past 6 years.