“My process often starts with asking myself ‘where would I like to be today?’. It’s usually a wide open space that I want to be in, and I can have a look around to see what’s there. Not necessarily what’s expected, but what I would like to see there. The idea usually unfolds as I go, the placing of one object determines the next, guided by an overall mood and colour scheme that I have decided on. The imagery I use is drawn from personal experience, from childhood memories right through to current observations of veryday life.
I start with the darkest tones and move forward to the lightest, highlighting little ordinary details along the way. Depicting ordinary objects against vast spaces of nothing is what I find most fascinating. So the finished piece is something that is familiar, but at the same time, a little unusual.
AVAILABLE WORKS
Mary Conder | All in a Day’s Work | Acrylic on canvas | 91 x 122cm | $2,950Mary Conder | Bridging the Gap | Acrylic on canvas | 76 x 122cm | $2,000Mary Conder | Bus Stop on the New Estate | Acrylic on canvas | 91 x 122cm | $2,950Mary Conder | Fringe Dwellers #2 | Acrylic on canvas | 61 x 122cm | $650Mary Conder | Geisha | Acrylic on canvas | 122 x 91 cm | $800Mary Conder | Girl in a Green Hood | Acrylic on canvas | 122 x 91 cm | $800Mary Conder | Lighthouse Frolic | Acrylic on canvas | 153 x 91 cm | $3,000Mary Conder | Monarch | Acrylic on canvas | 48 x 91 cm | $600Mary Conder | Off the Leash | Acrylic on canvas | 91 x 122cm | $3,000Mary Conder | Palm Beach | Acrylic on canvas | 30 x 92cm | $400Mary Conder | Pelican Beach | Acrylic on canvas | 61x153cm | $1,600Mary Conder | Rural Delivery | Acrylic on canvas | 102x153cm | $3,500Mary Conder | Slow Boat to China | Acrylic on canvas | 61x153cm | $1,500Mary Conder | Sticky Beaks #2 | Acrylic on canvas | 152 x 101cm | $3,000Mary Conder | Tin Man | Acrylic on canvas | 91 x 122cm | $2,500Mary Conder | The Mooring | Acrylic on canvas | 48 x 90cm | $600
Hillier and Skuse 