Trish King Hitz

Works inspired by the Mangroves on Throsby Creek at Carrington.

John Miller Galleries

2004 Artesian Art Prize Exhibition
2005 Mangrove Walk 2294 (Carrington’s postcode is 2294)
2007 Mangrove Shadows
2009 Mangroves and Beyond

Art Systems Wickham

2012 Lap Lines

For many years prior to the Mangrove Series I had worked with a very lively, colourful palette. In 2003 for my exhibition “Connections”, a collaboration with ceramicist Vicki Sienczuck at John Miller Galleries, I turned to a tonal palette after hearing a radio interview with a painter who had lost his ‘colour’ vision. I started out using purely sepia and white as an exercise in discipline.

It was never my intention to stay in one place so long, but the constantly changing shapes, shadows, moods and markings of the Mangroves on Throsby Creek are endlessly fascinating. As I wrote in 2005, “Flotsam and jetsam, the floating wreckage and jettisoned cargo of our urban lives, is all around”. This is still so, but the sharp-edged shadows thrown by harsh bright sunshine; ripples in the mud stirred up by cold, wintery winds; the blurring of the crab and bird markings as the tide washes in, or the evening colours and morning light, mean there is still a great deal more inspiration to be had from this little stretch of mangroves on the edge of suburbia and industry.

Trish King Hitz
Phone: 0409 636 625
Email: tkh@mysoul.com.au