• From Siberia to the Kimberley – Each year the Wading birds return to the Mangrove Swamps, lithograph with hand colouring printed in six colours from six aluminium plates, 2012
  • The last journey of the Regent Honeyeater, etching with watercolour, monoprint 1/1
  • The Waders Return, lithograph with hand colouring printed in five colours from five aluminium plates, 2012
  • Bladderwort species I – Giraween flood plain, NT, watercolour on paper, 2012
  • Bladderwort species II – Giraween flood plain, NT, watercolour on paper, 2012
  • The Secret Life of the Mudskipper, lithograph with hand colouring printed in five colours, from five aluminium plates
  • Mangrove Swamp I, lithograph with hand colouring printed in five colours from five aluminium plates, 2012
  • Mangrove Swamp II, lithograph with hand colouring printed in five colours from five aluminium plates, 2012
  • Mangrove Swamp III, lithograph with hand colouring printed in five colours from five aluminium plates, 2012
  • After the Fire – Leaf Surge, five plate lithograph, 2003-4
  • After the Fire 2 - 'The fresh earth beams forth ten thousand thousand springs of life ' - Blake, five plate lithograph, 2003-4
  • North of Andado, lithograph with hand colouring

Desert Drypoints, Wetland Woodcuts and the Magnificent Mangrove Lithograph Series

31 May - 29 June 2013

 

John Wolseley returns to Darwin in June as part of his continuing exploration of the Daly River and Blue Mud Bay in East Arnhem Land. Immersed in swamps, wetlands, tidal mangroves and the life forms that inhabit them, his work is a search to discover how we coexist within the landscape.

 

Wolseley’s paintings are a study of the inner workings of living organisms, an idea that has emerged out of the rivers and swamps of the Top End environment.  While the compositions can be thought of as figurative, they also go beyond to a combination of stylised dynamic abstraction and rhythmic energy and still further to the exploration of hidden dimensions of being.

 

While primarily an artist John Wolseley brings to his work a deep sense of philosophy, research, ethno-biology, botany, zoology and humanitarianism coupled with acute observation. His exhibition Desert Drypoints, Wetland Woodcuts and the Magnificent Mangrove Lithograph Series is on show at Nomad Art from 31 May – 29 June, 2013

 

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