George Haynes: In Search of Painting

A major monograph about Western Australian artist George Haynes' 60-year painting career and significant contribution to Australian art. . The first major artist monograph about George Haynes, In Search of Painting illustrates the artist's influential, 60-year career as a painter, teacher and mentor with over 150 colour photographs. . Essays by eminent Australian art critic John McDonald and curator Sally Quin with a preface by artist and curator Andre Lipscombe. . The fifth book about Western Australian artists published by Art Collective WA. George Haynes was born in Kenya in 1938 and moved to Western Australia in 1962, after studying at the Chelsea School of Art, London. Shortly after, he started exhibiting at Skinner Galleries, the first commercial gallery in Perth, and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally ever since. His paintings are characteristically drenched in colour and are a keen observation of everyday Australian life and landscape. He is a master of light, creating harmonious paintings of colour, tone, and temperature, with a flair for composition that imbues a musical quality to his works. His sophisticated use of colour and light has influenced and inspired generations of artists. In 1988 the Art Gallery of Western Australia held a retrospective of his works, curated by John Stringer. George Haynes is a prolific artist whose work resides in the most prestigious private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Artbank, Bankwest, The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Murdoch University. ..