Philip Wolfhagen
Artwork title: Signals II
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 34 cm x 157 cm
Price: $47,500
About the Artwork
Mankind has always looked to the skies for answers, in search of meaning, always watchful for a sign, an omen, and whether the portent is good or bad. I am constantly scanning the skies for clouds that appear meaningful. This cycle of small works titled Signals are a playful investigation of an unusually spherical cumulus, resembling the hot air balloons that regularly drift across the plains at dawn, although this cloud is passing over a landscape in declining light at dusk. The paintings depart from faithful observations of natural phenomena to explore imagined happenings in the landscape.
Artwork Sales
Complete the following form to enquire about purchasing this artwork
About the Artist
Philip Wolfhagen studied at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart before moving to Sydney, where he studied at the Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney in 1990. He returned to live and work in Tasmania in 1996. Since then he has held over 45 solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth WA and Washington DC. In 2013 a survey exhibition covering 25 years of Wolfhagen’s work, 'Illumination: The art of Philip Wolfhagen' was staged by Newcastle Art Gallery and Tasmanian Museum Art Gallery, which then went on to tour nationally.