Art in a changing world

Trevor Hood’s paintings are about movement, drama and beauty. Mostly imagined and abstract, they evolve from an initial process of instinctual pattern making of abstract landform elements that then develop into more complex and dramatically atmospheric images. They are a distillation of the visible world into a 2D graphic essence and are a personal response to a changing world through a lens of imagination and memory.

From a childhood in Sydney’s northern beaches, years in the Central Tablelands NSW and then to South East Queensland, his interest has always been in natural and altered landscapes. Inspiration has come from the bush, cities, farm land, the outback, rivers and cloud forms.

Rivers was an exhibition that responded to the river landscapes of the Noosa/Wide Bay region of Queensland and was held at Gatakers Artspace, Maryborough. Unearthed was an investigation into abstracted landforms and was inspired by the Central West Country that surrounds Orange, NSW, and was held at Jayes Gallery, Molong. Dust, Marks and Memories: Imagining Landscape at the Orange Regional Gallery, was a celebration of the amazingly flat and patterned inland landscapes of North Western NSW.

Alchemy: Cadia Hill Gold Mine Art Project was a self initiated and curated group show that was inspired by the gold mine near Orange at Cadia, NSW, and Out of the Blue Into the Void- A celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of ‘The Blue Era’ By Yves Klein was a group show that referenced another type of landscape-that of the mind and our visual perception.

A lifelong artistic practice has created a body of work that will inspire you and also give pause to look at the world in a different way.

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