Alan Pomeroy Art
  • Home
  • Painting Gallery (by Subject)
    • Figurative
    • Landscape
    • Abstract / Figurative / Still Life
    • Spiritual & Iconography
  • Painting Gallery (Series)
    • Thinker & Thought Series 2025
    • Abstract Landscape 2019
    • Elements of Place 2017
    • Storm & Tempest 2016
    • Burnt Landscape 2015
    • Tropicana (Bali) 2015
    • Reclamation (car wreck) 2015
    • The Other Person 2015
    • Public Service Party 2013
    • The Lovers 2012
    • Night Journeys 2011
    • Dining Table Epergine 2008
    • What Price? 2007
    • Man & Machine 2005
    • Household Things 2005
    • The Mystery of Drawers 2003
    • Church Cemetery Series 1995
    • Public Service 1985
  • Digital Art Gallery
  • Prints available
  • Artist Information
  • Contact Alan
  • Blog - Alan Pomeroy
  • Photographic Galleries:
    • India Kashmir & Ladakh
    • Red Centre, Australia
    • Snowy Mountains, Australia
    • South Coast, NSW, Australia
    • Cyprus, Malta, Sicily & Southern Italy
    • Murramarang National Park NSW
    • Jervis Bay Marine Park, NSW, Australia
    • Tasmania: Tarkine and Cradle Mountain
    • North Island, Volcanic New Zealand
    • Namibia Photo Gallery
    • Arnhem Land Photo gallery
    • Exhibition 2018 Photo Gallery
  • Alan Pomeroy Art Book (2023)
  Alan Pomeroy Art

Alan Pomeroy Art Book

13/2/2024

1 Comment

 
Picture
This book is a retrospective collection of the work of the artist, Alan Pomeroy. 
The book is divided into chapters which curate and document his work over the time period from the 1950s to the 2020s.
Over 600 high quality images printed on 170 gsm Sovereign Silk paper in the book of 230 pages, show the diverse range of art created by Alan Pomeroy. Each image is captioned with reference information.
Alan was largely self taught. He completed a graduate diploma in visual arts in 1981 from the Australian National University. His art work includes ceramics, sculpture, painting, digital art and photography.
The ceramics included in the book show some examples of his production pottery of domestic ware and sculptural pieces. 
Alan's two dimensional painting output is divided into several sections. Two chapters are devoted to documenting his early artwork from 1957-1964 and his personal development from 1965 to 1989.
Other chapters explore Alan’s approach to the genres of landscape, seascape, streetscape, figurative and illustrative, abstract, and still life. The media used include graphite, oils, water-based, and mixed media.
Images based on strong narratives of personal and societal experience include the Public Service Series, and Suburban Dreaming Series both of which reflect on the life and times of the 1980s.
His exploration of themes includes an interpretation of several different cultures and a personal examination of the domestic environment where ordinary things are reinterpreted. 
A chapter on Iconography and Spirituality, considers Christian, Buddhist and Hindu themes. This work was completed as appropriate, using Byzantine style painting with egg tempera and gold leaf media.
Alan’s work with Digital Composites utilised his photographic images of the natural world combined with his artwork using digital manipulation, to create several series of composite images. These include the ‘rock art series’ where art work is integrated with natural sculptural rock landscape and the ‘skyscape series’ where images are integrated with cloud formations.  Other composites include seascapes.
A final chapter, considers the Buddhist tsa tsa (cf. stupas) as a means of connecting with the natural environment, the built environment  and the philosophical afterlife, using photographic digital manipulation to create composite images.
The book also provides some associated written documentation to support the two dimensional work. This may take the form of providing the context for the artwork that was created at the time; an interpretation of the imagery, and poetry to support the emotional inspiration for the imagery.
The book has a comprehensive table of contents and an index. 
There are two CV appendices. One relates to Alan Pomeroy as a scientist, the other as an artist.

Cost $220.00 plus delivery. Order using the 'Contact Alan' link. ​Contact Alan

1 Comment

Tin Shed Art Group Exhibition 2018

8/11/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture

This year I am exhibiting a series of 12 photographs.
​
These were selected because of the unusual or abstract qualities of the images.

Their content ranges across coastal areas, bushland and city-scapes.

The coastal photographs include the mosaic of driftwood patterns on beach edges, the vivd shapes of algae covered boulders and large rock formations in the ocean.

In the bush they look at the impact of nature after the rain, after fire and at sunset.  
Even a car relic has its abstract qualities after being dumped and stripped in the harsh Australian outback environment.

In the city there is the person-made landscape where artificial light creates fascinatingly bizarre shapes and patterns within the natural setting.

​See the Images in the Exhibition



0 Comments

2017 'Elements of place' -  Tin Shed Art Group exhibition

21/11/2017

1 Comment

 
Artist's Statement
This series of paintings is based on my travel experience in Bhutan, a Buddhist country characterised by prayer wheels, prayer flags and monasteries. These 'elements' of Buddhism were incorporated into my paintings. They occur throughout the Bhutanese landscape particularly at significant geological features such as mountaintops, outcrops, gullies and gorges. The harsh impact of nature on the Bhutanese landscape causes enormous wear and tear on these ‘elements’, causing all to gradually disintegrate. These paintings endeavor to capture this feeling of impermanence.
Picture
1 Comment

Icon 'Agony in the Garden'

14/6/2016

1 Comment

 
Picture
 Well it has taken 3 years (very part-time) but the painting is now complete! Agony in the Garden 2016 by Alan Pomeroy.
Egg tempera and gold leaf on board. Image size 915 x 650 mm. This image was adapted from a mosaic in Venice.
I have now started on another challenging painting 'Christ walks on the water' (Peter drowning?) from a mosaic in Sicily.
1 Comment

Paintings to mark 50th anniversary of ANZAC Memorial Chapel, Duntroon, Canberra, AUSTRALIA

5/5/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
This painting of Mary Help of Christians was commissioned to hang at the entrance to the Roman Catholic Chapel. It reflects Iconic history with contemporary themes.
This painting of the Conversion of St Paul was commissioned to hang at the entrance to the Anglican/Protestant Chapel. It reflects themes associated with contemporary military service.
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

2015 Tin Shed Art Exhibition

5/11/2015

1 Comment

 
Picture
1 Comment

Article about the Exhibition 'Daydreams' (screenshot)

31/10/2014

1 Comment

 
Picture
1 Comment

Tin Shed Art Group Exhibition 2014 "Daydreams"

29/10/2014

0 Comments

 
Opens Wed 29 October at 6.30 pm at the Watson Arts Centre Aspinall Street Watson, Canberra ACT and runs until 9 November.
Hours 10am - 4pm Thursday to Sunday. 
I will have 7 Digital Art Prints from my 'Suburban Dreaming' Series 2014.

My Artist's Statement:
"This series of paintings, 'Suburban Dreaming', explores the relationship between people (or metaphors for people) and their suburban environment. 
The images reflect the juxtaposition of human aspirations, goals or ambitions (which may be represented by dreams or fantasies) and the reality of the everyday life experiences of people living in their environment. The consequent surreal quality in these images reflects this relationship.
Whether dreaming occurs in the bath, behind the locked bathroom door, the kitchen or outside in the garden, the dreaming may take different forms but the fantasy continues".

About the Digital Art Prints
These Images are created in high definition (HD) using professional digital tools (stylus, tablet and software) and may be printing on a variety of mediums using pigmented inks. They may be called Giclee (Fine Art) Prints. 
Each of the prints in this Suburban Dreaming Series is available from a Limited Edition of 50.
They are of Archival quality and signed and numbered by Alan Pomeroy (on the reverse of the Print).

 

0 Comments

Evolution of the Painting 'Departmental Party 5.04'

6/11/2013

 
It is interesting to see how a painting develops over time.
Here still image photographs were taken at the end of each painting session and put together in this slide show.
See the final image  and others in my Public Service Series 2013 in my Painting Gallery

    Artist

    Alan is a life-long artist. His media includes drawing, painting, ceramics, stained glass, photography and digital art. This blog provides a little background to a lot of art work!

    Archives

    February 2024
    November 2018
    November 2017
    June 2016
    May 2016
    November 2015
    October 2014
    November 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed