June 23rd, 2023Landscape prize up for grabs … if you’ve got the talent!

The Maldon Artist Network has partnered with EDGE galleries in Maldon to present the Maldon Landscape Prize for painting, drawing and mixed media.
The $10,000 prize is sponsored by the HMR Foundation based in Italy. The prize encourages artists to personally interpret landscape. The theme, Essence of Place, invites artists to bring their skills – everything they know, observe, and apprehend, to create work for consideration that may be formal, technically
balanced, out of order, maverick, wildly inventive, traditionally understood, arresting, composed, sublime, joyous, anguished, abstract or a combination of the above.
All works will be submitted digitally online for initial judging by a panel of professionals and the finalists will be exhibited at EDGE galleries. Entries are due to have been submitted by September 8. Landscape painter Mary Tonkin will judge and award the prize. Links: www.maldonartisnetwork.org.au or www.edgegalleries.com

Pictured above is an example of Essence of Place, Geobloom No. 4 by Philip Hunter
“Philip Hunter was an original, unlike any other painter, in the way his draughtsmanship was in constant service to a symbolic and evocative vision of the country.” (Peter Graven, Sydney Morning Herald, May 15, 2017).
As well as being a dedicated landscape painter Philip Hunter was an academic. Having graduated at Prahran College he later completed postgraduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts. Philip first taught at Prahran and then became a legendary teacher in painting at the VCA.
Image reproduced with permission