Michael Peck 'INK DRAWING # 23' etching

Michael Peck 'INK DRAWING # 23' etchingAustralian contemporary artist Michael Pecks visual world is bracingly intimate. He places figures, landscapes and still lifes in total stillness, conjuring a sense of mystery, remoteness and unease that speaks to the conditions of a postmodern world. Beneath mass media, the individual grows atomised and detached from their culture a lone subject in a wintery landscape. This work is an original watercolour. It is masterful in its form, depicting the

For those invested in Australian modernism

'Broken Cypress' 2012

he suggests that the artist first encountered cut-outs working for the ‘Sun’ newspaper in the 1940s

witness Blackman find his form and tone – the desire to connect

ink: To Ursula / with Best Wishes / for Xmas + New Year 71 / from / Eric & Grace

Merging myth with modernism

Balancing artfully on the top of giants

Image is excellent

The Bathers I is a formidable find

The results are awe-inspiring and various

heralds from the artist's sketch book when he was living in London at the height of his creative output

Condition: Very Good: Some small marks and white out commensurate with the work's materiality and reflective of the artist's process