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Matthew Armstrong
Goonoo Forest Wattle
Acrylic Paint and Ink on Canvas
As a boy, my brothers and I helped my dad as he worked in the Goonoo Forest, 30km outside of Dubbo NSW. This deeply shaped my sense of place, solitude, and connection to the natural world whilst exploring sleeper tracks, lined with Cypress Pines and Ironbarks. Goonoo Forest Wattle is rooted in the textures, colors, and rhythms of that landscape and incorporates colors of rusted earth, burnt yellow and the dappled light extended through the Ironbarks and Wattles. This childhood experience and recent return has fostered and nurtured my imagination which I have aimed to capture in this expression. My brushwork and use of palette knife mirrors the wind and bird movements married together with the bush’s layered stillness.
Size: 63 × 53 cm
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About Matthew Armstrong
Matthew is a Brisbane based Visual Artist and Community Development Coordinator. In his community work, he works alongside various community groups, co-facilitating visual storytelling projects across Queensland and more recently the Northern Territory.
Matthew’s paintings centre on contemporary expression in the Australian landscape informed by his early years growing up in Dubbo, New South Wales. His practice uses various mark-making techniques; brushwork, palette knife, rough charcoal, acrylic, and ink lines, to suggest landscape movements, patterns, changing light and shadows. contemporary expression in landscapes, his mark-making.
Trained in Graphic Facilitation he has also completed research on Visual Narration through Griffith University.
