By Gabrielle Martin
2025
oil on linen
44x54cm framed
$2,300
ARTIST STATEMENT
"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."
BIO
Gabrielle Martin is a Central Victorian painter, based on Dja Dja Wurrung land, whose work moves between the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life. She has been a finalist in many national art competitions, including the Archibald Prize, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award, Len Fox Painting Award and Maldon Portrait Prize (winner 2022). Her work was selected for Archie100, an exhibition celebrating 100 years of Archibald history that toured nationally from 2021-2024. She is represented in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Castlemaine Art Museum, State Library of Victoria, Deakin University and Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo.