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'Copse’ by Ric Burkitt
$950.00
Acrylic on linen
61 x 61 cms
About the artwork:
The six works presented in Reverie explore the landscape as memory, sensation, and emotional experience rather than physical description. While inspired by the colours, rhythms, and atmospheres of the natural world, these paintings move beyond representation into a process of intuitive abstraction. Each work begins with spontaneous marks and layered gestures that are built up, obscured, reworked, and revealed over time. Through this cycle of addition and subtraction, fragments of earlier decisions remain visible, creating a history within the surface and allowing the painting to evolve organically. Rather than imposing a predetermined image, I respond to what emerges in the work itself, allowing colour, texture, line, and form to guide the direction of the painting. These abstract landscapes invite viewers into a space of contemplation and imagination, where memory and place become fluid, personal, and open to interpretation—a visual reverie shaped as much by feeling as by observation.
About the artist:
Ric Burkitt has spent a lifetime balancing creative practice with careers in graphic design, education, and the visual arts. After moving to Melbourne in 1970, he began his professional career as a graphic designer with BP Australia before returning briefly to Bendigo to work as an assistant curator and newspaper graphic artist. In 1985 he relocated to Perth, where drawing and painting remained a constant passion alongside professional commitments. Ric formally studied painting at Curtin University, graduating with Distinction in 1993, before continuing a long career in graphic design and visual arts education that culminated in more than two decades of teaching and academic leadership.
Now working as a full-time artist, he embraces an eclectic and experimental practice spanning diverse styles, media, and techniques. His recent work explores abstraction as a means of emotional expression, driven by a fascination with process, discovery, and the transformative possibilities of paint.