Diana Palmer is pleased to present POST a new exhibition space in Exeter NSW and its’ inaugural exhibition by emerging artist Dougie Schofield titled Gentle Pruning from Saturday 12 November  - Saturday 24 December 2022.

Dougie Schofield is a Sydney based emerging artist whose work is focussed on the practices of gardening and painting as modes for investigating concepts of contemporary landscape. In Gentle Pruning, Schofield leads us down a garden path where domestic gardening and professional horticultural practices provide a framework for us to consider our interaction with Landscape and Nature.  As the artist states “Gardens reveal our complex relationship to landscape; I believe they indicate a deep desire for a closeness with Nature and a compulsion to curate and control it.”

Celebrating the persistent motion of plants and the hypnotic rhythm of their undulating growth and decay, Schofield’s paintings are organic and gestural. Using painting tools to evoke an atmosphere of gardens and seasonality he transforms traditional representation of the landscape through a maximalist abstraction. Here the surfaces are worked, dug, scratched, grown, dappled with light and thick with rain - they are the place from which they were made in nature.

Dougie grew up in Eden, on the Far South Coast of NSW, in his parents rambling garden. This early immersion in Nature has resulted in a practice that focuses on gardens as curious sites of Nature/Human interaction. Schofield has had solo and group exhibitions nationally and has been exhibited internationally in China, Spain, and the Philippines. He currently has work on display in the Macquarie Group collection, Sydney. and 2017 he graduated Fine Art (Hons) at UNSW Art & Design, with a major in painting and minor in printmaking.

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