Current exhibitions
20th Anniversary Retrospective
Windmill 20th Anniversary Retrospective
Exhibition dates: 14 September - 22 October 2017
Opening: Saturday 23 September 2017
MAMA Albury
To celebrate 20 years, the Windmill Trustees and Management Committee together with NAVA is holding a 20th anniversary exhibition to celebrate the Windmill and reconnect with past winners.
Tom was the joint recipient of the Windmill Trust's Annual Scholarship in 2004. About Tom's work, the Windmill Trust writes:
Tom Doherty’s primary focus is on Plein Air watercolour paintings of the landscape where he lives in the Blue Mountains. With the opportunity of an exhibition at Mary Place Gallery in Sydney, he applied for the Windmill Trust to assist with the exhibition. The scholarship provided him the financial support to mount the exhibition.
Tom said “The dramatic effects of weather patterns in the place I live, the airy, changeable and ambiguous atmosphere and mood of the Mountains constantly inform my work. This led to my interest in breaking down the components of living organisms and forces of nature – vapours, mists and gases. All these elements make themselves felt in my work.”
Mountain mist,
Watercolour on paper. 2015.
H25cm x W32cm.
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Past exhibitions
'HUMORS'
Exhibition dates: July 31 - August 10 2013
Opening: August 3, 3pm to 5pm 2013
Exhibition including; TOM DOHERTY, GARY CHRISTIAN, PETER DITTMAR, BERND HEINRICH, TREVOR HOOD, & MICHAEL KEIGHERY.
About Tom's work, Janet Clayton Gallery writes;
Doherty's paintings are abstract meditations on natural and cosmic phenomena. His practice is grounded in detailed knowledge of the oil techniques of the old masters (Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez) which he brings to the very different medium of acrylic. Working with heavily textured paper, he builds up layers of transparent and opaque colours so that the history of the work is retained in the final image. His paintings seek to balance his love of rich colour with his pursuit of deep pictorial space and reflect his sensitivity to the variable potential of the painted mark.
For Doherty, the formal problems he encounters within his abstract compositions provide a medium for giving form to his impressions of natural forces, epic formations and events of the universe, and the space of the metaphysical. Thus the interplay of wet and dry textures, the mix of transparency and opaqueness and the juxtaposition of warm and cool hues are a means to evoke phases of change and moments of drama that could be taking place in any number of settings: within a marine world, in deep space, or in a more ethereal domain. Doherty always seeks to retain a sense of ambiguity and intangibility in his paintings, and to invite the audience to bring their imagination to bear. He relates his work to the qualities of music, and finds a sense of affinity with the way in which classical music gives poetic, rather than literal form to things and induces different mood states.
