Roxanne Minchin

Roxanne Minchin

Art and music have always been an integral part of my life.

As a young child my earliest memories are of sitting on steps in the backyard sketching the rainforest and native birds around my home at Wamberal on the New South Wales central coast. I was winning colouring competitions at the age of four and, even as early as then, I had an unusual approach to colour and design.

I had always wanted to be different and my art works have always reflected this.

I moved to Broken Hill in the later 1970's for a two year stint as a law clerk. Although I was beginning a secondary career as a contemporary artist, inside was a frustrated landscapist. I always felt that modern art was largely a hoax - I still do. Fate brought me into contact with the late Eric Minchin in 1978 and, through him, I finally found the key to unlock the mysterious techniques of landscape painting.
It is a constant challenge to weave the emotions into a painting and to do this means developing a relationship and a sensitivity to the subject matter. Working in this semi arid desert, I've developed an appreciation of our big skies, our vast red clay plains, our strong light and colour, lakes and an endless horizon - favourite subjects of mine. This is why plain air painting is so important. How else can you feel and express the soul of the land and the rhythm of nature?

It is very exciting to stand up above the Mundi Mundi Plain and experience the vastness of it all. A sense of humility overwhelms.

As far as influences go, I was always in awe of Salvador Dali and the surrealists. His works still cause me to draw breath. I also liked the classical paintings of Turner - what light! - Constable and the artists of the Heidelberg school. These influences, plus the traditional techniques learned from Eric, have resulted in my rather unusual and unique style.

Highlights have been many and varied, some of the most memorable being presented with the key (the Seal) to the City of San Angelo, Texas. Working and exhibiting on the superb sailing vessel "QEII" for three years, the appointment as an "Australia Day Ambassador" and being named as Broken Hill's "Business Woman of the Year" for 1998. Such credibility has, and will continue to, enable me to further my fundraising work, public awareness of my art and the uniqueness of the Broken Hill region.

My paintings are in public, corporate and private collections worldwide.

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