Shirley Peters ARAS

(Associate Royal Art Society of NSW)

My choice of landscape is to paint the magnificence of nature in its grandest forms: canyons, waterfalls, oceans, using abstract detail.

I paint minutiae, with emphasis on patterns and textures. I love the ‘business’ that I see everywhere in dense bushland, and I paint these tight details. And on stepping away, the full scene reveals.

Influenced by two late artists: David Hockney, who inspired me to stay with representation rather than abstraction, and Nicholas Harding, a master of landscape painting using a palette knife.

I live in Darug Country where my 5x maternal Indigenous grandmother lived. I love that I have this connection to the land and its people. I have an English father. I make no claim to be an indigenous person, except to be a proud descendant.

My ancestors are from Wiradjuri ( Mudgee area) with song lines to Dharug people in Western Sydney (Windsor).

My ancestry comes from my mother’s side through her mother’s side. Details here