Obsession to Create

Obsession to Create exhibition brings together two Cowra artists Ann Morton and Greg Daly, one a painter the other a ceramicist. For over 30 years a collaboration has taken place between these two artists of different mediums—Greg making ceramic vessels for Ann to include in her still life paintings. Both are drawn to the Cowra landscape and atmospheric light, these elements appearing in Ann’s landscapes and in the surfaces of Greg’s ceramics.

Ann’s still life paintings are rich in composition and alive with details from the lace tabletop on which sits Greg’s work filled with flora that creates a canvas of complexity. Her landscapes strive to capture the colour, light and mood of the land and sky. Greg’s work draws upon light and interaction with the atmosphere and environment.

He captures impressions of light through mist, rain, clouds, sunrise, sunset, dust, storms, heat and the moment as the sun goes down—that after glow that changes for just a moment the land and sky. His ceramic pieces reveal the importance of light itself interacting with the lustre surfaces of the work. Light and lustre have a synergy that creates colour and movement. The angle of the light striking the lustre surface will change its colour and intensity as you move around each of his ceramic works.