Winifred Beamish BUNGONIA SCENE 1963 Original Watercolor Painting

Description: Original watercolor painting on Arches paper titled "Bungonia Scene" by Winifred Beamish. Signed by the artist and dated in the bottom right-hand corner. Watercolor measures 14" x 10" unframed. In generally VG condition, with some minor acid offset from the original mat, and tape residue on the reverse. Winifred Grace Beamish (1913-2003) was a largely self-taught artist. Born in England in 1913, she won a number of awards for her art at school. As a young adult, she continued her art in her spare time, working basically, in black and white. She completed a short course in architecture and studied interior design; her family has been involved in the building trade and she married a builder Mr. Tom Beamish. In 1949, she, her husband and young children moved to Australia and settled in Goulburn. Her part-time interest in art continued and she was a founding member and long serving President of the Goulburn Art Club. She began, in Australia, to use colour in her art, inspired by the colour she saw here. This was the colour which was to become a vital element in her creative expression. Initially, Mrs. Beamish’s interest was in seascapes inspired by her holidays on the South Coast. Then she became attracted to old buildings - broken down, with old fences, rusting corrugated iron, essentially evoking history. In 1957, feeling she needed tuition, she completed a short course with Albert Rydge who taught Max Meldrum’s tonal theory. Meldrum believed in art of naturalism, grounded in objective analysis of tone - ‘the truth of what you see’, rather than a personal or subjective art grounded in the emotions or imagination of the artist. This course enabled Mrs. Beamish to fully utilize the tones found in nature in her art and increased her interest in landscape painting. Her application of this technique is illustrated in Catalogue Numbers 35 ‘Sydney Road from Goulburn’, 55 ‘Tonal Still Life’ and 57 ‘Timber Yard, Moss Vale’. This was followed by a water-colour course with G.K.Townsend in 1959, which began her later interest in the medium of water-colour, although she continued to concentrate on oil painting and drawing.

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Location: Beaumont, California

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