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INSIGHT

Darren Meader

The Keen Observer

This clever artist kindly shares his views of drawing, composition,

photographs, colour and tone.

have always been a keen observer drafting, and painting was of course always a passion of mine to understand
of the natural and man-made world. a hobby. I travelled the outback the physical processes of the Earth and
II loved drawing as a child but did extensively in 1989 and 1991 but how it came to be as we see it today.
not start oil painting until age twenty never painted for I was just as keen a It was a career that got me back to
in a night class in an art supply shop. photographer. In 1993 I then turned to a the bush where I enjoyed being, and
My chosen career then was structural university degree in geology, for it was painting took a place on the back burner

Last Light at Rocherlea 71.5 x 53.5cm Oil on Canvas

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