Bush Diary

Celia Perceval is far more than a traditional en plein air painter. Her process is less about taking control, through replicating the scenery, and more about relinquishing this very thing.

“We change the landscape too much,” she says. “I feel like I’m painting what’s left of that landscape. I wish we could just be part of it.”

Distinguished arts critic, historian and writer, Tai Mitsuji, writes that “the disorder of nature prevails in her work. Her kinetic brushstrokes are animated by sounds and smells and filled with the unmistakable sense of life in motion.”

Bush Diary includes works painted in and around the ACT, as well as memories of Western Australia’s dramatic wild flowers.