Cressida Campbell
Apples
acrylic on paper
signed with initials ‘C.C.’ (lower right)
55 x 68 cm (image); 76 x 88 cm (frame)
Price on Application
Provenance:
Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Acquired from the above pre-1998 by the present owner
Early in 1980, directly after Cressida Campbell finished her studies at East Sydney Tech, she was living in Bondi, and began painting, mainly on paper.
Apples is an example from this earlier period where she painted with acrylic directly on paper before her use of the painted woodblock technique. A more conventional still life scene, the work nonetheless strongly speaks to Campbell’s botanical eye and her elevation of everyday scenes of domestic life into subjects of art.
The perspective and flatness of the picture plane is a reminder of the traditional Japanese woodblock composition, which even from these early paintings had a remarkable influence.
