Burder, Watson Knight and Johnson: colour.field.echo

The respective works of Michele Burder, Susan Watson Knight and Amanda Johnson variously contain figurative and abstract elements, often with unconventional and high-key palettes.

Michele Burder’s paintings explore views from roads as seen through bus or car windows, as well as those captured on walks through public parks and local reserves. The paintings play with distortion, subtle colour schemes and echoing forms.

In Susan Watson Knight’s recent work, traditional quilting shapes have provided the starting point for the development of high-coloured pigment prints. Pigment prints variously evolve through ongoing experimentation with shape and colour and exaggerated blurring techniques.

Amanda Johnson works directly with echoes of colonial landscape genres and site-specific observation of degraded ‘wilderness’ areas. The artist’s most recent depictions of botanical infestations and logging aftermath arise from field trips to the Otway State Forest, Tarkine and Florentine Valley.