Amanda van Gils

It is landscape that continually returns to me, and me to it. There is richness historically and pictorially in landscape that can keep an artist busy for an entire career.
My work is primarily in oil paint on canvas or linen using landscape to create painterly representations of the flow of time and motion. The ideas behind my practice relate to our sense of place, our psychological connection to the land and, by extension, readings of landscape as an artistic genre.
Currently my work is immersed in how we experience landscape in our fast paced society where the busy-ness of life means that much is only glimpsed or merely sampled; it is this contemporary sampling of landscape that is presently my focus in the studio.

Next Exhibition

Still. Moving
19 Jan – 15 Apr 12
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
1 Barolin St (Cnr Quay St) Bundaberg , QLD

Mon – Fri: 10:00 am – 05:00 am
Sat – Sun: 11:00 am – 03:00 am

One of six mini solos presented under the “Landscapes” umberella. “Still. Moving” features the artwork of Amanda van Gils alongside exhibitions by five other Queensland based artists (Adrienne Williams, Ainslie McMahon, Jacqui Reed, Jennifer Kenny, Veronika Zeil).
The artists are exploring; movement, light, colour, form and contrast, as they capture the essence of the landscapes that inspire and surround them.

Married to fellow artist Vito Manfredi
http://artabase.net/artist/830-vito-manfredi