"Minjerribah Camping" 2024
Influenced by Thomas Merton's "Angelic Mistakes," my painting aims to combine traditional landscapes and contemporary mark-making techniques, through the medium of acrylic inks and paint. In this painting I have used bold brushstrokes, cloth and palette knife work with fluid acrylics, inviting viewers to explore this seascape. I’ve camped alongside this beach, with its dancing reflections, evoking a spiritual presence for me. It is my hope that viewers are drawn into a
"Minjerribah" On the easil! Inspiration from Minjerribah, camping at Adder Rock!
110 x 110cm on canvas, acrylic ink and paint, house paint.
#antiquewhite
#markmaking #billabong #moretonbay
#quandamooka
#minjerribah
#straddie
#contemporyart
#visualart
#adderrock
#stradbrokeisland
#stradbrokeislandart
#seascapes #australianlandscapes
By the creek bed - in nature's embrace,
a moment of calm. Creek roots 2024
#australiancreeks #australianrivers #creekroots #acrlicinks #acrylicpaint #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #abstractlandscapes #tellingstories #naturesembrace
1 of 4 Commissioned Paintings, Icon Place foyer refurbishment, Adelaide Street Brisbane 2024 #riverview #riverscape #brisbaneart #brisbaneriver #kangaroopoint #kangaroopointcliffs #rockclimbing #markmaking #contemporaryart #landscapelines #abstractview
"Rock Climbers" Kangaroo Point Cliff's. River echoes, climbers, "angelic mistakes" on canvas 90 x 90cm. 2024 #australianlandscapepainting #acryliconcanvas #australianimpressionism
#brisbaneriver #kangaroopointcliffs #brisbaneartist #artoftheday #abstractart #fineart #contemporarypainting #markmaking #mixedmedia #brisbanecity #brisbaneriver #art #rockclimbing #thomasmertonquote #riverreflection
By the creek bed - in nature's embrace,
a moment of calm. Creek roots 2024
#australiancreeks #australianrivers #creekroots #acrlicinks #acrylicpaint #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #abstractlandscapes #tellingstories #naturesembrace
Great weekend painting, workshop facilitated by artist Dan Butterworth...
Extending landscape lines to portraits
(out of my comfort zone), returning to paint Minjerribah and Goonoo Flanel Flowers lines and marks, Inspirational. Thank you!
#markmaking
#asemicwriting
#visualart
#housepaint
#antiquewhiteusa
#cardboard
#acrylicpainting
#acrylicinks
#portraits
#australianlandscapes
#minjerribah
#straddie
#dubbonsw
Between the yellow flags, Minjerribah Adder Rock, around through to Home Beach, Cylinder Beach ...
Straddie... 2023
#minjerribah #minjerribahcamping
#yellowflags
#straddie
#homebeachstraddie
#stradbrokeisland
#stradbrokeislandart
#visualart
#contemporyart
#cardboard
#markmaking
#acrylics
#acrylicinks
#seascapes
#landscapes
Great weekend painting, workshop facilitated by artist Dan Butterworth ... 2023, my self portrait.
Thank you!
#markmaking
#asemicwriting
#visualart
#housepaint
#antiquewhiteusa
#cardboard
#acrylicpainting
#acrylicinks
#portraits
#australianlandscapes
#minjerribah
#straddie
#dubbonsw
At the beach! Minjerribah, Adder Rock, Straddie, inspired, on board, 60x40cm 2023 #atthebeach #beachart #minjerribah #artinspiration #mixed media #acrylicsonboard #acrylicink #australianlandscapes #eucalyptus #paperbacks
At the beach, using paperbark, ink, sand. Acrylics on board, "untitled" 2023
#moretonbay #mixed media #recycledboard #acrylicink #storiesofplace #paperbark #australianlandscapes #contemporaryart #abstractart #barklines #markmaking
Pietralunga Umbria August 2023 Finished and reframed this canvas work from a month ago! Walking by Pietralunga Umbria, St Francis Way, Italy...
#stfrancisway #pietralunga #umbriaart #mixedmedia #acrylicink #acrylics #slowtravel #walkingtrip #markmaking #fog #expressiveart #contemporyart #visart
Lake Lila, Tasmania Aug 2023, Sold during my exhibition at Land Street Gallery. .
#landstreetgallery
#contemporymarkmaking #markmaking #australianlandscapes #inklines #acrylicart #narrativeart #re-storying #lyricallines #placemaking #belonging #brisbaneart #contemporyart #visualart #communityarts
February 2023, Sold Acrylic Ink and Paint on Canvas, 60 x 90 cm.
A Cradle Mountain walk last May now complete...
The return to this walk, today; lines and marks, took me back to a serene space; still, silent and calm.
Lake Liila Track to Dove Lake, enveloped by trees amidst this walk, anchored...
#cradlemountain
#lakelilla #mistandfog #tasmaniaart #tasmanianlandscape
#landscapelines #markmaking
#contemporaryart #visualart #visualjournal #bushwalking #acrylics #acylicink #kunst #australianlandscapes
October 2022,
Through bark and sea stories . #storiesthroughart #landandsea #dreams #reflections #australianlandscapes #seascapes #moretonebay #queenslandart #contemporyartist #kunst #waves #tides #visualart #journey #markmaking #mixedmedia #expressivearts #qldartist #abstractseascapes #surf #abstractlandsc
July 2022, The Newell Wildflowers washed in landscape.
May 2022, "Whitegum Lookout" Sold
Warrumbungles 29 x 42cm, on 300gms paper, mounted in frame. Acrylic paint layers and acrylic ink lines.
May 2022, 'Breathing Wurrumbungles' SOLD Acrylic Paint, Ink and graphite on Paper, 29 x 40cm
March 2022, "Along the Newell" 40 x 60cm, on 300gms paper, mounted in frame. Acrylic layers and acrylic ink lines.
Sleepecutter Bush track by dry creek on canvas 50cm x 90cm #goonoo #coonabarabran #nswcountry #centralwestplains #visualarts #contemporyart #acrylics
January 2022, "There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness" Thomas Merton. This work, 30 x 42cm, on canvas, mounted in a floating frame, Minjerribah SOLD
October 2021, Solitude by the Paperbarks, SOLD 42 x 52cm, on canvas "The astonishing thing about nature is not only it’s power to startle and amaze, to ren
October 2021, 30 x 42cm, Solitude by the paperbacks ... number 2, SOLD experimenting with ink ... travelling back to October, sea lines and landscape marks. Painted today on paper #minjerribah #homebeach #seascape #watchingthesurf #northstradbrokeisland #headlands #adderrock #oceanview #markmaking #linesandmarks #expressiveart #contemporaryart #solitude
Mount Triborgargon, Sunshine Coast hinterland. SOLD Water Colour and Acrylic Painting on 300gms Paper, 30 x 42cms.
#oringinalart #markmaking #mountai
Sold Tidal Flow - Pumicestone Passage 2021, Sold 61 x 51cm, mixed media, acrylic ink and paint on canvas
An evening of view, depth of colour, sandbar as I
Minjerribah day trip ... Cylinder Beach Camping SOLD ... ink and water colour on paper 30 × 42cm, 2021
#minjerribah #northstradbrokeisland #northstraddie #cylinderbeach
#queenslandartist #windswept #sunnyday #ink #acrylics #abstractexpression #expressivelandscape #seascapeart #surf #headland
2020 'Dove Lake' #2 Tasmania ... SOLD exploring my signature, my mark in the landscape.
Mixed media
1000mm x 1000mm
Stretched Canvas
2021 Macquarie River, off shoot creek bed, 600mm × 900mm, acylics on canvas #macquarieriver #creekbed #drycreek #visualarts #landscapeart #contemporyart #acrylics #acrylicink #expressionism #light #nswart #qldartist #markmaking
SOLD 2021, 'Goonoo' sleeper cutter bush tracks, iron bark tree tops amidst wattle lining the road on canvas 900mm x 600mm, acrylics on canvas #acrylic
Moreton Bay 290mm x 400, Acrylic on Paper, SOLD
#sunset #lastnight #moretonbay #moretonbayart #windswept #brisbanearts #brisbaneartists #acrylicart #acrylicarts #paletteknifepainting #palette #abstractexpression #expressionism #abstract #abstractseascapes #seascape #queenslandart #australiannature #markmaking #moretonbay #moretonbayart #water #land #connectiontoland
'Wiradjuri Wattle'
Finalist for the Kangaroo Valley Art Awards 2020
SOLD
Garal’ is the name for Wattle flora within Wiradjuri lands. The pompom and cylindrical mustard yellow flowers grow in profusion lighting the bushland. This painting was inspired by a winter road trip on the spring cusp through the Central Western Plains of New South Wales, my birthplace. Layered in an acrylic textured base on canvas using palette knife, sponge and brushes (crafted from natural reeds), my marks here reflect a
'Dove Lake' #1 Tasmania
2021 SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
300mmx420mm
'Billabong Surfing'
Finalist for the Moreton Bay Art Awards 2018
Mixed Media
600mmx420mm
SOLD
Influenced by camping at Adder Rock, Billabong surfing is the merging of sea, scrub and sand as tidal waves follow the storm. The waves bring energy and spirit and chart the surfer's path.
'Wattlebush Landscape'
Central Plains NSW. SOLD
2020
Water Colour and Acrylic on 300 gsm paper.
297mmx420mm
Armkeit Studio
Matthew L Armstrong
Copyright © 2021 Armkeitstudio - All Rights Reserved. My artwork and comments expressed are my own personal views.
I acknowledge our First Peoples, the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work, and honour the elders past, present and emerging.
BA, MHServ, CertVisArts, CertIVTAE