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    Welcome

    Welcome to Dorothy Wishney’s gallery, working from her hill top studio overlooking farmland, distant mountains and the village of Lochinvar in NSW, Australia. Explore her world of vibrant paintings, with themes inspired by observation, memory and imagination. Using a vivid palette of colours, reflective surfaces, imaginative distortion, patterns and elements of photo collage, Dorothy Wishney unites the still life, interior or figure with landscape, seascape or garden. 

    The Australian landscape has influenced her mixed media paintings, which explore the concept of indoor/outdoor and examine the transition from internal to external space.

     

     

     

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    Mixed Media

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    Mood Shift

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    Sanctuary

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    Honeymoon

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    Transition

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    Cats Chance

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    Good Intentions

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    Inside Poolside

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    Caught

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    Ebb And Flow

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    Lacustrine

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    Coastal Travels

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    Emptied Of Time

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    One Fine Day

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    Rendezvous At Cradle Mountain

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    Settle For Half

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    In The Mirror

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    Whispers Of The River

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    Forbidden Fruit

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    Curios Encounters

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    Still Life Still Water

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    Mood Blue

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    Early Start

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    Close Encounters

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    Aspects Of The Studio

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    Mask And Mirrors

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    Embroidered Tail

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    Sense Of Journey

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    Foliage And Fragments

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    Intimate And Open

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    Hidden Source

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    Layers Of Light

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    Concealment Revelation

    Oil Paintings

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    Pindmar Mangrove

    Oil Paintings

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    Vineyard Walk

    Drawings

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    Bush walk (charcoal)

    Drawings

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    Glenrock Rolling

    Drawings

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    Spillway (charcoal)

    Lino

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    Still life with Magpie (lino)

    Lino

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    Launceston Roof Tops (lino)

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    Mother and Child (lino)

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    the Steer (lino)

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    Girl With Pigtail (lino)

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    Pears and Pattern (lino)

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    The Barn (lino)

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    Girl with Lizard (lino)

    Etching

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    Highland Cow

    Acrylic Paintings

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    Fragments with Gift Wrap

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    Fragments with Lillies

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    Fragments with Birds

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    Fragments and Beyond

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    Fragments with Pomegranates

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    Fragments with Magpie

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    Fragments with Girl

     
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    About Dorothy Wishney

    Born in Scotland, Dorothy was involved in drawing & painting at an early age. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art, for 4yrs with a further year at Strathclyde University. After years of teaching art in Scotland, she spent quality time travelling in the USA & NZ. Now living in in Australia (since 1979), the Hunter Valley, she has held many solo exhibitions & participated in numerous group exhibitions, NSW & interstate.

    Dorothy's work is greatly influenced by living in Australia... Subtle colours of the Scottish landscape have given way to vibrant colours in association with the Australian lightscapes.

    Themes revolve around the concept of Exterior/Interior where boundaries between inside & outside merge. Where a nude or a still life drifts between room and landscape.

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    A painting encapsulates the vision and imagination of an artist. A commission by Wishney enables a client to participate in this vision by offering personal subject matter to be incorporated into a painting. Place, possessions & symbols with an essence of time can infuse an artwork with personal meaning. Often such artworks are undertaken to celebrate a significant event - birthday, relocation, anniversary, celebration, etc...
    An example of this is the painting “Honeymoon”. Clients have had incorporated images from the location of their honeymoon. Special items have been added to the still life in the foreground - favourite flowers, the handmade bridal veil, a paintbrush and pencil referring to the artistic background of the bride.
    Dorothy Wishney enjoys working at this personal level with clients and creating an artwork, which is totally exclusive.

    Mixed Media Paintings explores the concept of indoor/outdoor, often using the window to unite the interior space or still life with landscape, seascape or garden.
     

    Oil Paintings, predominately focused around landscape, is where Dorothy connects with the diverse landscape of the Hunter Valley - vineyards, mountains, coastal plains & family property, but more recently she has been exploring the immense Tasmanian landscape.


    Acrylic Paintings offers a medium titled "Fragments' - small, intimate still life paintings, which are superimposed on black surround, enhancing vibrant colours & patterns.

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    Drawing underpins Dorothy Wishney’s contemporary artwork. it resolves reality, memories and ideas.


    Her subject matter is diverse and landscape is a recurring topic. It is here that Dorothy connects with the visual aspects, as well as the elements, sounds and scents of the terrain. Such drawings enable her to recreate a time and place in the mind’s eye.
     

    Significant drawings are developed back in the studio and may be reworked on a larger scale or in a variety of media. Some of Dorothy's drawings are the source material for a number of her paintings or prints.

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    Prints are an extension of Dorothy Wishney’s drawings. Some drawings lend themselves to the strong contrast of lino prints while others relate to the sensitivity of the etched line.

    Lino Prints, are an extension of Dorothy Wishney’s drawing practice. Some drawings with their strong tonal contrasts, direct line and bold form, lend themselves to the process of lino cutting and printing.

    Etchings: For Dorothy Wishney etching is a compelling process, which not only extends the initial concept of a drawing but also has the added advantage of multiple images.

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  • Latest news

    6 Aug 2011 - Welcome to the website of Dorothy Wishney. Now you have the opportunity to browse at your leisure, the paintings, drawings and prints of Dorothy Wishney.
    As time unfolds you will be able to view new works on line, check events and discover where her work is being exhibited. You can contact the artist for more information about her work, new projects and ideas. Dorothy is setting up another studio in Tasmania and has recently incorporated aspects of the Tamar River into her mixed media work. You will find these elements in paintings ‘Silence of The River’ and ‘Ebb and Flow’.

    Events

    ‘Vivid’, an exciting new art gallery in the Hunter Valley located at North Street, Cessnock, and is currently displaying the work of Dorothy Wishney.

    Other galleries exhibiting her work include:
    - Pokolbin Gallery
    - Butterflies Gallery
    - Capercaillie Gallery
    - Hayden Hall in the Hunter Valley
    - Artarmon Gallery in Sydney
    - Greenhill Galleries in Adelaide........

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