Australian landscapes in oil
Light, laid down in layers.
Clive Douglas builds each painting from thin, translucent layers of oil, colour over colour, until the light seems to come from inside the canvas.
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Each layer of paint is thin enough for the colour beneath to glow through, so the light changes as you move around the room.
The large works.
Clive’s largest paintings, each framed in Australian hardwood.
All the paintings.
The artist
An architect’s eye.
Clive Douglas was born in Auckland and came to Melbourne in 1975 to study Interior Design and Architecture at RMIT. For thirty years he ran his own architecture practice on the Mornington Peninsula, and since 2020 he has painted full time.
“A window to look through.” Clive’s phrase for the white board around his small works, and for what he wants every painting to be: a sense of place, more than a record of a view.
- Six first prizes at Victorian art shows, 1985 to 1989
- Studied oil painting under Maxwell Wilks at the Victorian Artists Society
- Exhibited at Brunswick Street Gallery, Lander-Sea, Vida Gallery and Lon Resort
By appointment
See them in person.
The paintings are in Clive’s studio in Dromana, on the Mornington Peninsula. Ask about any painting, or arrange a visit.
- Phone
- 0414 704 665
- @morningtonart