Joanna Logue paints atmospheric semi-abstract canvasses that echo the forms and essence of her natural surroundings. Logue has a strong emotional connection to the Blue Mountains where she lives and works and the sublime landscape is the unapologetic protagonist in her works. Logue’s canvasses have a depth and fluidity, partly cultivated by her manner of working which is to tackle several works at once, from which a series emerges. Like Monet and the Impressionists before her, the artist is not compelled by any one view but rather capturing an essence of the natural world as it changes and shifts continually. In her atmospheric and gentle canvasses details are stripped away, paint is literally wiped from the surface and the landscape is distilled into a sophisticated impression.
Despite her immersion both physically and mentally in her subject, Logue is not opposed to using photography to create her compositions. However, she avoids flatness and stillness in her works by using multiple images and revisiting segments over a period of time. Thus the viewer is given a richer experience of the terrain and what walking through the landscape might feel like as opposed to a singular perspective. Despite the site-specific inspiration, Logue’s aesthetic has a universal appeal, her approach allows her paintings to transcend the original setting and distinguish themselves as metaphors for landscape at large.
Joanna Logue received her Bachelor of Arts at The City Art Institute, Sydney in 1998. She has had over 20 solo exhibitions throughout Australia, most recently at The Tim Olsen Gallery. Her work is in numerous collections including the Ampol Collection, Art Bank, Barclays Bank, Cornell University, Qantas, Australian Art Investment Trust, The Pat Corrigan Collection, Macquarie Bank, NSW University and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
