EXOTIC, but endearingly familiar.
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That's how Hill End artist Luke Sciberras describes the breathtaking scenery of the remote regions of the Kimberley Coast in Western Australia, which he has captured in a new collection of works.
His exhibition Rose Into View opened at the King Street Gallery in Sydney this week and will be on show until April 13.
Sciberras, a well-known contemporary landscape painter, travelled to the Kimberley in 2018 as the first invited artist in Paspaley Pearling Company's new Artist in Residency Program.
Visiting remote Kimberley coastal areas including the Osborn Islands and surrounding areas of Kuri Bay, he found a landscape that inspired him.
"By far the most rewarding and nourishing aspect to being an artist is to launch into new and challenging situations and this surely has been all of those things," he said.
He said the immensity and variety "in each corner of that wonderful place takes my breath away".
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Sciberras travelled a second time to accompany Elisabeth Cummings - the second invited artist to visit, and his long-time friend and plein air painting companion - and it gave him the opportunity to create more work and to visit locations not seen on his first trip.
He has dedicated the exhibition to Cummings.
Sciberras is one of the exhibiting artists in the touring show Salient: Contemporary Artists at the Western Front, which features work from 12 Australian artists who visited the battlefields of World War One.
Visit salientwesternfront.com for more information on the Salient exhibition.
