Angophoras Aglow | Penny Verdich

Penny Verdich is a contemporary artist from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Primarily a painter of semi abstract landscapes, Penny uses saturated colour to create bold paintings.

Drawing and painting on location is central to her practice. This enables Penny to explore the lines, shapes and patterns of the environment and provide the foundation for work completed in her studio.

For Penny, ‘on location’ can be anywhere from the tangled Angophora foreshore of Sydney Harbour to the wild southern reaches of Tasmania to the vastness of central Australia. Being outside, in all elements, from the peaceful beaches and coves of Sydney Harbour to wild, windy and wet coastlines anywhere southern Tasmania to Svalbard in the Arctic Circle, that inspire Penny to create preliminary drawings in her sketchbook.

For each painting, the colour and texture of the ground guides Penny to create forms and tessellated patterns which resolve into a semi abstract landscape.

Penny has exhibited in group shows in Sydney and regional NSW.

In August she had her first solo at Shac in Robertson, NSW.

"Moored at peaceful Taylor’s Bay on Sydney Harbour and cocooned from the frenetic pace of Sydney life, I’ve drawn its densely vegetated foreshore many times.”

“Dominated by towering Angophoras and punctuated by outcrops of Sydney sandstone, it’s a challenge to incorporate these giants of the scene as well as the complex understory."

Penny Verdich, 2024.

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