Amanda
ruck

cloudy skies and the bush inspire, heal, connect.

ABOUT AMANDA:

“I use cloudy weather patterns as a vehicle for emotion. At the base of some paintings, there is a slither of landscape for scale, and they often include a pathway and trees to suggest an intimate story. These dark broody landscapes provide a ballast for a window of light, allowing the viewer to contemplate where the path leads, or what is over the horizon.”

Artist Amanda Ruck graduated from the Canberra School of Art in 1988 with a Bachelor of Art, Visual, in printmaking and painting. Not long after graduating she moved to Melbourne and when landscapes, and particularly clouds, became a major focus Amanda seized an opportunity and moved to Healesville, in the beautiful Yarra Valley in 1998.

Since 2007, Amanda has been painting in acrylic on canvas, creating atmospheric landscapes with sweeping skies, using clouds at night to depict the weather patterns of her heart.

This Cathedral of Bush

The shuddering light through trees Noticed, gone
Light flickering like a candle flame Potent and absorbing

Remarkable stillness
Swept away leaves, branches reaching Vigorous and reverent, a church choir.

Invisible, the visible
Face warm, then shadow. Midday stillness
Poster blue sky
multi generations surround Iconic and attached to the earth.

Time travellers with leaves homes for the natural architects Nests and hollows.
This Cathedral of bush.

Medium: Painter
Tags: Acrylic painting, clouds, bush, Forest bathing, landscape, painter.