Colin Pennock, "Guide"
5th May - 29th May 2010
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 Colin PennockGathering ForceOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD734
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 Colin PennockFiscal ClimateOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD735
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 Colin PennockView to CompromiseOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD736
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 Colin PennockGradualOil on canvas,183 x 183 cm737
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 Colin PennockLandslideOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD738
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 Colin PennockSecond GridOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD739
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 Colin PennockTidalOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD740
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 Colin PennockNew PathOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD741
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 Colin PennockNew HavenOil on canvas,153 x 123 cmSOLD783
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 Colin PennockBordersOil on canvas,183 x 183 cm$18,000784
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 Colin PennockGeneral DirectionOil on canvas,183 x 183 cm$18,000785
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 Colin PennockRural SystemOil on canvas,153 x 123 cmUnder Consideration786
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 Colin PennockGridOil on canvas,183 x 183 cmSOLD789
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With his latest exhibition at Scott Livesey Galleries, Colin Pennock joins the greats of Australian landscape painting.
Pounding and exuberant, Pennocks take on the landscape is unlike anything put to canvas in the history of Australian or international art. Pennock was born in Northern Ireland and studied at St Martins School of Art in London and rapidly built a reputation as one of the strongest of a new generation of painters in Europe. But seven years ago Pennock discovered the Australian bush and established a studio nestled in the bush of the Hawkesbury River. From that moment his palette exploded as the Irishman responded to the visceral world of the Australian scrub.
Pennock describes his works as deliberately unresolved. Each statement can be contradicted, he says. Each mark can be remade a different way. This work is about vulnerability. Its about just putting something down. When I paint I feel something but I dont know what its all about until after, its just some sort of gesture of what I feel about things as they happen.
His radical approach is intended to break down clichd and moribund notions of how we approach day to day life and the world around us.
Pennock was Winner of the Mosman Art Prize in 2005 and Finalist in the Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize, SA in 2004 and 2008 and maintains a distinguished international reputation.
Ashley Crawford, 2010