Elliott Nimmo - Plovers' Song, 2021 - Oil on canvas - 53x56cm framed

Elliott Nimmo’s paintings express the memory of a feeling of being in the landscape. He captures the experience of true immersion in the world, drawing on deeply personal memories, such as “Rushcutters Bay on a milky, April morning; the fields of fluorescent canola on Wiradjuri Country where I feel home; or the rolling hills shouldering the sky in lutruwita/Tasmania.” 

Elliott's paintings are process-driven. He begins with broad washes of colour which soak into the canvas, forming a substrate for painterly mark making. He embraces chance with these initial colour field stains, which reveal themselves and choose their own path. He then retakes control with the subsequent painted layers in an intuitive process of push and pull which echoes his deeply felt relationship with the environment. 

Artwork location: Sydney

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