Artwork Title: Moonlight II

Moonlight II, 2014

William Mackinnon

Melbourne-based artist William Mackinnon’s large, cinematic paintings take the viewer on a road to nowhere. Lonely highways twist and turn through the wild Australian landscape, the subject always just outside of scene, peering out from behind the windshield and into the inky darkness. “It was an image I had in my mind for a couple of years that I knew I wanted to explore”, Mackinnon explains of his fascination with the driver’s gaze. “It’s giving one a sense of peering through. Sort of like a veil that pushes the viewer back into the room as they look out.” Painted largely from memory, each work sits somewhere between fantastical reality and dreamscape. These seemingly empty and haunting spaces are given life through watery strokes and a mix of oil and acrylic applied as a spray, giving depth and texture to the canvas. The versatile medium of oil paint draws him in: “I love how it can take your mind... [http://www.port-magazine.com/art-photography/the-bowerbird-william-mackinnon/]
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