A Spritz Afternoon

By Nadine Bastow

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This piece expresses my favourite part of the dunes at Moore River, late on a summer’s afternoon. This small gap between the scrubby plants allows only one family to pull in for a swim, hidden from the steep dunes further around at ‘the desert’, often packed with boats and visitors scaling its heights before sliding down.

Acrylics Collage-1970’s wallpaper, spray paint

50 x 50

Professionally framed

I am a mid-career artist with over 30 years of experience having exhibited in Perth, Melbourne and Internationally, with 4 solo exhibitions and numerous group shows and my work is held in several collections around Australia. I am a mixed media landscape painter enjoying highly textured surfaces, layers of print, paint, ink and paper. Also a portrait painter and sculptor, I enjoy pattern and layers of rich colour and texture whether on a 2D or 3D surface. My paintings are an expression of landscape rather than a literal interpretation and my work which reflects a 52 year immersion in the ancient and precious dunes and water ways of Moore River also known as Gabbadah, where the mouth of the Moore River meets the Indian Ocean (in Guilderton, 1 hour north of Perth). This is Yued Noongar country and I am a recent visitor. This environment is embedded in my visual and physical memory as my family have owned a shack here since 1970. I have spent my life swimming in the river and ocean and walking all over its sandy dunes. The indelible imprint this land has left on me, drives my work as does the extraordinary West Australian light.