About the Artist.

Irene Osborne is a multi-award winning, professional Perth artist with over 40 years visual arts practice, since she gained her Diploma in Fine Arts in 1975.
She has enjoyed a wide range of artistic experiences from painting on location in remote outback and desert regions of Australia, to teaching art to rural communities, TAFE art lecturer, State and local government Arts Advisory Panels,  Judging Arts Awards, exhibiting internationally, and creating Public Artworks, sculptures and large murals for many towns across Western Australia.

Her award winning art works, have been exhibited throughout Australia and overseas, and are represented in numerous private and corporate collections worldwide.

Artist Statement

The unique Australian landscape provides me with consatant inspiration. I find it an almost spiritual experience, to be immersing myself in the landscape, to connect with the earth, feeling at one with nature – it is my personal escape that refreshes my soul and clears my mind.
To me art and the landscape are interconnected.
As an artist, I see order in the random natural world, I am challenged by the magic way light affects colours, shapes and shadows, driving me to try to capture and express this, through my art.
One needs to experience a landscape to translate these aspects into an artwork with integrity.
I particularly love Australia’s variety of trees, they have different characters, and stories, they are home and shelter to wildlife, they give us clean air and are environmental indicators of the state of the earth they grow in. I am also fascinated in the ancient Xanthorrhoea grass trees and they often feature in my artworks.
The experiences of sketching or painting on location with quick plein air studies, assists me to capture a moment in time, the light, colour and unique aspects to give a strong sense of place,.
These small onsite works are often further developed into larger paintings in the studio later.
In this exhibition, I am presenting a collection of works derived from living in different regions of Western Australia, from the stunning red earth of the Pilbara to the greener lower south west.