2017 paintings

2017: With full-time studio painting my palette has matured

Abstract painting with bold shapes in colours such as yellow, orange and blue, on a pink background The composition includes geometric and organic shapes, creating a sense of movement.
Booktopia3 42x44cm
Booktopia1 49x42cm
A painting featuring abstract shapes bold colours including yellow, pink, ochre and blue there are suggestions of human and landscape-like shapes and forms.
Booktopia2 42x44cm
An abstract painting featuring a variety of textures, shapes and colours, with prominent red marks and a complex layering of soft hues.
started as Maroubra RockPool 90x100cm
Landscape View 36x45cm
Officeworks 101x122cm
Local Landscape4 30x40cm
An abstract painting using light and dark green-grey textured shapes with some highlights of orange and red, with a mix of lines and textures creating a dynamic composition.
Darling in Distress 60x90cm
An abstract painting using a mix of irregular geometric shapes in vibrant colours, including pinks, reds, oranges, yellows, and teal greens, arranged in an irregular geometric layout.
untitled Landscape 90x60cm
Paper Bag Landscape 90x60cm
Was Hadley 90x60cm
Tamara Falls Again small 60x40cm
Para Glider 40x30cm
Ghost Steps 40x30cm
Wot 60x40cm
Ikea 60x48cm
Hawkesbury Landscape Reworked 61x91cm
An abstract painting with bold yellowish angular shapes outlined in thin black lines on a textured blue/grey background.
Tia Gorge 60x90cm
Anglerfish from the Sky
Fallen Log 48x60cm
Camp Ground 60x60cm
Cash Register 30x30cm
End of Day on Mapleton Forest 30x30cm
Semester2 Hangover
Red Wall
An abstract landscape with stylised trees and a colourful background, of pink and magenta with orange rocks in the foreground.
Hawkesbury Landscape in April Palette 60x43cm
Searching
Not Flipped Drawn
Flipped
Landscape Flowering
1394 20×20
Portrait of Landscape
Local Landscape
Local Landscape2
Crowsnest Shadow-another
figure shadows, ©Schwab2017, collage using paint and digital fragments
Grey Cloud
Pot Plant
1392 20×20
Northern Silo
1393 20×20
Crowsnest ShadowsDSC7495
Crowsnest Shadows
Coastal Landscape
1391 20×20
boxhead, Schwab2017, 60x90cm, acrylic on canvas
Tia Gorge off Track 30x42cm
Tia Waterfall 30x42cm
Tia9 Waterfall 24x32cm
Tia8 24x32cm

During 2017 we continued living in Sydney and I was painting full-time in my St Leonards studio. With full-time painting my palette has become more consistent and more colourful and my work more abstract. I am approach painting with a new found freedom and expanded knowledge from my studies. In July I started my Master of Art at UNSWAD (COFA), this study has started to unravel concepts I wasn’t aware of within my art practice. Drawing and painting on paper is fast, free and invites chance into my mark making while experimenting with collage and image transfer further extends this excitement.
Over Xmas 2016 and New Year, I camped at Tia Falls making drawings and plein-air paintings of the spectacular gorges, rocks and waterfalls some of which I worked into paintings at the studio.