Trevor Purvis

Trevor is an artist who believes that the Australian
countryside is a never-ending source of creative inspiration. Exploration and
appreciation of the extreme nature of the Australian landscape from the deserts
to the coastline, searching for moments of inspiration and wonderment. The
subtle visual variants of light, colour and topography, unique to anywhere else
in the world and well worth the observation and exploration.

Trevor’s bold use of colour and exaggerated mark-making is
his signature approach to the Australian landscape. Using gestural brushwork,
his loose and seemingly accidental style instinctively exaggerates the colour
range onto the picture plane with bold aptitude, his rich layered painterly
works challenging traditional landscape norms. Using bold colour
interpretations of light, Trevor explores the variations of light and texture
in an expressive and personal way.

Trevor completed his Graphic Art degree at the Natal College
of Art in South Africa. This started a thirty year advertising career which
took him to senior Creative positions in Johannesburg, Salisbury, London,
Frankfurt, Sydney, Adelaide, Bangkok, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Abu Dhabi and
most recently Moscow. His many international creative awards include the most
prestigious Gold Lion at the Cannes Advertising Festival.

He discovered outback Australia after leaving advertising
and attending the National Art School in Sydney, this in turn led he and his
wife Beryl, on a two year off-road Australian odyssey which culminated in a
successful solo exhibition at the Atwell Gallery in Perth.

He now paints full-time at his studio in Cooroy surrounded
by the verdant Noosa Hinterland. An intrepid traveller, Trevor continues his
journeys around the Australian outback, painting smaller ‘en plein air’ works,
as well as larger pieces back in the studio. He paints dozens of acrylic
studies on paper and turns these studies into energetic landscapes back in his
picturesque Maluti Studio.

Exhibitions