Talking about Roma McLaughlin's work in Guan Shan conference.

Geranium Flower, Acrylic and Gold leaf on canvas, L 36cm x W 46cm x D 3.5cm, 2010

The geranium is a hardy plant that continues to flourish in Australia’s increasingly harsh climate and can still be seen in many suburban gardens. This work is part of a series of paintings, which reflects the artist’s lived experience of the on-going change from a traditional suburban way of life to a more cosmopolitan lifestyle.

  

Wok Icon - Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, L 45.5cm x W 60.5cm x D 3cm, 2009

Roma’s work uses figurative images of suburban life. Some of these images are taken from her home, garden and surrounding environment. She lives close to the offices, shops and restaurants of Box Hill Central in Melbourne Australia, where there is a large Chinese community. This series of paintings reflects her lived experience of the on-going change from a traditional Australian suburban life to a more cosmopolitan lifestyle.

She uses highly decorative borders, which serve to capture and enhance these scenes of the everyday. They are like windows from which the external world and/or an internal world may be viewed. She uses Celtic patterning inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts yet the subject imagery and colour palette in this painting have a distinctive Asian sensibility.

For Roma, the heart of her home is her kitchen and one of her most valued cooking utensils is her wok. She pays tribute to it here in this painting. 

Roma McLaughlin

Roma McLaughlin   蘿瑪                                    

Australian

 

蘿瑪  1954年出生於澳洲,1975年畢業於墨爾本Prahran大學的美術設計系.
擅長水粉畫,彩色鉛筆,鋼筆和墨水以及水彩繪畫.她更是一位插畫家,曾出版成人和兒童的書籍.也曾多次參加各種研討會,包括水彩畫,書籍裝訂,畫作及傳統的中

國畫的研討會.

 

蘿瑪80年代中期開始於社區中心教導小學和中學生繪畫,並且參加藝術材料供應

商工作營.

她的作品曾在墨爾本作出多項展出.

Translator: Min Chih Sun 孫敏智

Artwork by Roma McLaughlin - Kitchen Still Life

This reminds me of those beautiful dolls which you open to find another in minature form , then another and another...