Twilight

Last weekend I visited the Castlemaine Autumn Festival for a daytrip with two of my sisters and my brother-in-law (the chauffeur). We had a lovely time wandering around this quaint country town, listening to some great music, enjoying some delicious food, browsing in vintage stores and quirky boutiques, and gallery-hopping.

Out of all the galleries that were within walking-distance, the exhibition I most enjoyed was Carolyn Graham’s linocuts in Between Daylight and Dark, showing at the Falkner Gallery.

It’s not often I go for landscape art, but these are anything but traditional with strong and stylised shapes in a palette of grey and green. Most of the pieces were landscapes of rolling hills, and stark silhouettes of trees, but there were a few enjoyably quirky creatures too, such as this rabbit (below). It’s refreshing to see linocuts as opposed to etchings (as much as I love these) and prints that take such a painterly approach too, thus achieving a softness that is rarely seen in linocut printing.