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Landscape Salon is a dynamic group exhibition focusing on the unique Australian environment; drawing together eight painters, the show celebrates and highlights each artist's practice whilst curating them into a dramatic and cohesive whole. They all approach and respond to the landscape in their own way, bringing to life this incredible country that we all share.

These modern and contemporary Australian paintings offer collectors and art lovers an opportunity to experience artworks that reflect the depth and diversity of Australia’s creative landscape. The showcase highlights innovative techniques, and vibrant aesthetics shaping today’s Australian art scene. Whether you’re seeking unique contemporary paintings, original art, emerging Australian talent or investment-worthy pieces, this exhibition invites you to discover exceptional artworks that resonate with Australia’s most dynamic creative communities.

Below is each artist’s response to their chosen landscapes.

Ben Crawford.

"I experience the landscape around me in a fragmentary way. For instance, while driving I’ll see the hazy outlines of mountains in the distance framed by blurred trees, or a creek that ribbons along beside the road- appearing and disappearing at will- reflecting random pieces of architecture, or I’ll get home at night and catch a glimpse of the stars through silhouettes of fingery branches. All these details form a whole when I come to painting about the landscape, like a patchwork quilt that tells a story of place and time and memory."

Stacey McCall.

"When my youngest daughter started school, I started a Friday ritual of driving to the You Yangs National park, about an hour out of Melbourne. There was certainly a freedom about getting in the car alone, snacks just

for me, art podcasts replacing the Hannah Montana soundtrack. The aloneness of being in the bush with my sketchbook and water colours was just the respite I needed, reconnecting with the absolute joy of drawing and painting and maybe easing a slight sadness over children growing older. There is such a comfort in nature.

Although my practice has turned more towards Still Life over the past ten years, I spend a lot of time down on the Victorian Surf Coast with my family and in The Goulburn Valley where my husband and I grow walnuts. I am never without my sketchbook and was so delighted to be included in this landscape show. My landscape painting is a studio practice, working from watercolours and drawings in my sketchbook then interpreting these sketches in oil paint back in my studio.

Ben Fennessy.

The natural environment and local landscape are the primary inspiration for Ben Fennessy’s paintings, in particular the wild Victorian South-West Coast and Koroitj/Tower Hill on Gunditjmara country. Ben draws upon the influence of artists such as John Constable, JMW Turner, Clarice Beckett and Fred Williams in his use of light, however the intense colours in Ben’s paintings evoke the drama inherent in the Australian environment. For Landscape Salon, it’s the recent Grampians bushfires and Killarney storms and ocean gales that are the context and settings for these striking images. They are all a mixture of oil and acrylic on canvas, painted from photos and memory in Ben’s ‘Garage Studio’.

Lara Karasavvidis.

Lara’s work for 'Landscape Salon' offers a contemplative response to the landscape surrounding Port Fairy (Gunditjmara Country) during the transitional months of April and May, when the atmosphere grows cooler and the light softens. This period is marked by a quieting of energy and a turning inward after the intensity of summer. She has sought to capture this through a subdued colour palette and softer, more descriptive marks,

shifting to oil paint and oil pastel after working predominantly in acrylic and lino printing. This series still reflects her formative studies in printmaking through a continued interest in the layering or interplay between marks as they sit on and beneath the surface suggesting the way landscapes hold traces of change and time.

Graeme Altmann.

"My recent work has been looking at the way my thoughts and ideas come and go as I walk the coastal tracks and pathways. There is no singular focal point, more of a view into and behind the forms that make up these walks. Produced in the Autumn of 2025 I could sense a beautiful weight of light and stillness in the landscape that gave space for these thoughts and ideas to emerge."

Giorgia Bel.

"As time rushes forward, I glance back—only briefly—careful not to collide with what’s unfolding ahead.

What was once felt so deeply remains: that day, that moment, when the sun sank into the mountain and sky and land dissolved into one holding breath.

It mattered. It still does.

And as time keeps racing, each dawn brings a new vision to lay across the canvas.

What has been, was good; what comes next is better.

These paintings share a story of reflection, thankfulness. and commitment. Acknowledging time brings joy in the morning."

Jessie Rose Ford.

"This collection features plein air studies created during my artist residency in the Canary Islands. Immersed in an unfamiliar landscape, each warm day blended into the next as I explored the unique terrain through painting,

watching the sun glide over a craggy, undulating land dotted with palm trees and cacti."

"I paint landscapes that I know intimately; places I walk through every day or see from the windows of my house and studio in Central Victoria, on Dja Dja Warrung land. Views known so well become interwoven with our inner lives. As they reflect changes from day to night and from season to season, they also mirror our own shifting landscape of feeling. These paintings are not made ‘plein air’, but are developed from small sketches, layer by layer, allowing a process of transformation through memory and imagination."

Landscape Salon is open at Boom Gallery in Geelong, Victoria, until December 6, 2025 and can also be viewed on our website.