Shaike Snir 'Unknown Portrait' bright & vivid

Shaike Snir 'Unknown Portrait' bright & vividDo you recognise this face? He is perhaps among Western art historys most consequential, appearing in Jan van Eyck 1434 painting The Arnolfini Portrait (also known as the The Arnolfini Wedding). This painting, which sees newlyweds gingerly clasps hands in a Dutch interior, is considered a turning point in art history. It is renowned for its beauty, complex iconography, orthogonal perspective and use of a mirror to expand space. There is also something

shortly after the Blackmans returned from living in London

‘Dreambird’ is a conduit for time

enraptured in a conversation we are not privy to

'Hunter Valley Morning' 1995

searching for an evocation

Signed: Signed John Perceval

An edition of 40

Dimensions: 95 x 65 cm

'Full Moon'

she fills the frame

Brilliantly bright

It is this ability to feel both beauty and pain through paint that has secured Blackman’s place as one of Australia’s most enduring modernist voices