Red Earth Outback Journey
oil on canvas oil on canvas
120x160 120x160
As 'the Painter Man of William Creek', Fisher is celebrated there, in Outback style - one of his paintings is displayed on the ceiling of the bar in the William Creek Hotel.
Over a hundred years ago this Pub was a provendoring stop-over for the Afghan working teams which, with their camels and
ability to cope with the harsh environment, were imported to South Australia to construct the Adelaide to Alice Springs rail-link,
ever since known as The Ghan. Fisher's studio is at Trevor Wright's place, and Wrightsair is the William Creek based tourist
operation which, during the last seven years, has flown this adventurous modern artist on his wide-ranging and movie-recording
search over these most ancient Australian outback lands, for subjects to feature in his paintings.
Over the millennia, Nature's elemental energies have stormed, worn, torn and crumpled the crust of our aged planet, and here in Australia's centre has exposed the world's oldest land mass.
The hugely dynamic sweep and swirl of mountain ranges, the stretched flat plains between, and the snake-like convolutions of the rivers, have been traversed and recorded by Robert Fisher during all seasons, in the dry, and in the wet.
This deeply weathered land-face inspires and inspirits Robert's powerful paintings, and their poetic imagery also reveals the artists particular personal and passionate response to the sense of space, and richness of place in this environmentally heroic outback.
These paintings are from a new As the Crow Flies series. There are more works at the gallery.
Moon Flight
oil on canvas
120x160
