William Ferguson

My canvases and works on paper made since the sixties have been concerned with a personal interest in the Australian Aboriginals, their life, culture and the desert in which they live.

Painting for me celebrates the mysterious, the Australian landscape and culture, providing a spiritual stimuli within which I am concerned – interpreting values in subjective expression – the inner life or spirit, rather than describing facts.

In my work I wish to project a profound aura of silence, optimism, and reflect mystery and spirital resonances linked with my personal interaction with the Aboriginal and their land.

- William Ferguson

Images
Title: Aranda Memories
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 95×110cm
Work date: 2008