Ned Pankhurst- Artist in residence

The Grange, Campbell Town - $150
The Grange is a superb example of Tasmania’s Victorian gothic architecture, sitting a gentile distance back from the Midland Highway through Campbell Town. Built in 1847, it was designed by convict architect James Backman for the hospital doctor, William Valentine. Today, it is a popular conference and function center.
Pen and water colour

Stari Grad, Otok Hvar - $150
Stari Grad is a town on the north coast of the island of Hvar, Croatia. It dates from 384 BC, but the current town is mostly a reflection of its time as part of the Venetian city state empire. It has a fascinating mixture of early Christian architecture (5th Century), Romanesque (11th C) and gothic (14th C) buildings. Destruction from invasions by the Turks and the French led to 17th and 18th C insertions in the townscape. The serenity of the cool stone laneways belies the turbulent history.
Pen and water colour wash

Paradise Point boats - $250
Queensland’s Gold Coast conjures images of surf and skyscrapers. But the real gems are the byways and backwaters of the quiet currents of the Broadwater. Boats of all sizes makes inviting gate keepers to a gentle shore lined with palms and she-oaks.
Water colour

Paradise Point sunrise - $250
Queensland’s Gold Coast conjures images of surf and skyscrapers. But the real gems are the byways and backwaters of the quiet currents of the Broadwater. She-oaks, dawn shadows and bright water amid the gentle hum of suburbia.
Water colour

Huntsman Lake - $130
Huntsman Lake was created in 206 by the construction of the Meander Dam to provide water for irrigation. In the process it created a fine fishing lake and one of the prettiest mountain water views in Tasmania. Framed by semi-circle of the forest-clad Western Tiers, the lake changes its mood with the mountain weather.
Water colour

Bakers Beach - $130
In Tasmania’s north, the rugged dolerite central massif gives way to low profile alluvial soils and gravels and gently sloping shorelines. The resulting shallow coastline is painted in pastels in stark contrast to the more brightly written coastal scenery of the east and south. It is a soothing and calming place despite the attentions of brisk Bass Strait weather,
Water colour

Ned Pankhurst is a water colour artist with training in biological drawing, and the rudiments of water colour technique. He has recently returned to Launceston after 21 years in tropical and subtropical Queensland.

A classical training in zoology and a career as a marine biologist, stimulated a lifelong interest in biological drawing and what seemed the natural expansion into representational painting. His paintings are often dominated by aquatic themes stimulated both by his training and professional work as a biologist and an obsession with salt and freshwater fly fishing. A counterpart to this is the intersection of the built form with natural landscapes and the interesting contrasts that this provokes. His painting attempts to capture light and flow in natural scenes and is unashamedly intended to invoke calmness and gentle pleasure.

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