Margaret Olley

AG312799
Published by Craftsman House 1990
ISBN: 9780947131364
158 pages, hardcover

Margaret Olley's work is well known to Australian art audiences and for many years she has been regarded as one of the country's leading practitioners of interior and still-life painting. This book discusses works from the late nineteen forties up to the late nineteen eighties.

A firm believer in 'art without epoch', Margaret Olley has resisted fashionable trends in painting, so it is possible to measure the consistency of her work against a climate of change in attitudes towards the visual arts.

Much of her subject matter is drawn from her immediate surroundings, yet from her earliest student years travel and change have been important components of her life. Many of her travels are directed towards the study of particular artworks and exhibitions which have given her a wide range of visual experience. Her thorough knowledge of art and her rare ability to transform paint into light, form, space and colour have given rise to an important body of still-life painting. The plates in this book show her ability to look beyond the static into the essence of her subject matter; they reveal a variety of response and are a statement of this artist's independence and integrity. 

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