Liminal – Calan Stanley
alongside
Ibla – Ranee Buckle, Carolyn Davis, Jo Daly, Andrew Littlejohn, Simon O’Brien, Calan Stanley, Sally Upjohn, Lawrence Walsh
Thursday 30 April to Sunday 17 May
Show at Artpuff Studio.
Opening celebration Friday 1 May, 5.00-7.00pm
Working figuratively, experiencing and rendering the landscape in paint, continues to entrance and challenge artists: the immersion of looking, working outdoors, and interpreting the light, colour and atmosphere around them. There is quiet magic in this, the ever-present possibility of something miraculous happening. The resulting works, showing in these exhibitions, express this in abundance.
Calan Stanley’s solo exhibition, Liminal, and Ibla, a group exhibition of 8 fellow traveller-artists give us paintings that convey both the experience of painting, the
concentration and the flow, as well as each artist’s impression of the view unfolding in front of them.
In October 2025, the eight artists travelled to Ibla, Sicily, to paint for ten days under the guidance of Castlemaine-based painter David Moore. Working outdoors, directly from life, they each made two small oil paintings per day, responding to the distinctive character of the historic hill town — its Baroque architecture, luminous Sicilian light, and surrounding landscape.
Images: Calan Stanley, “Uplift”, 2025, gouache on bamboo paper, 24 x 34 cm (detail); Simon O’Brien, “Sally Painting in Ibla, Sicily”, 2025, oil on board, 29 x 20 cm (detail
