Rhett Brewer | Eungella Spell
Eungella Spell | 2026
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 91 cm
Timber shadow box frame
$ 4,600
THESE ARE THE PLACES I REMEMBER
My earliest memories are of the house I lived in until I was five. I remember exploring the rooms inside and outside the old farmhouse. As I got older, I spent most of my time playing in and around the rural acreage and the neighbouring paddocks exploring the fields, the sheds, the creek and the patches of forest.
As an older boy I went much further afield on my bike. Now I was discovering new suburbs, a river, an airport, highways and new towns. My world was expanding, and I carry these places in my thoughts and dreams every day.
These studio paintings are records of places I have worked in on an even bigger map. Most of the pictures are from the Blue Mountains where I live, but some range from North Queensland to The Flinders Ranges in South Australia. In their variance from a faithful, factual record of a place, they are also, at least partly, a record of the places and spaces that were formative to my sense of self.
Rhett Brewer,
July 2026
Rhett Brewer
Bio
Rhett Brewer is a painter who works mostly with the Australian landscape as a plein air and studio painter. Trained in an environment that encouraged self-expression he incorporates elements of colour field painting, Pop, Surrealism and mid twentieth Century Modernism into his Romantic interpretations of the Australian outdoor environment. Nature for this artist is always in flux and rhythm and pattern are given high priority.
He has held over twenty solo shows along the East coast of Australia, been selected in Art Prizes notably twice selected into the Sulman Prize at the AGNSW, taught painting in universities in Australia and the UK and been in many group exhibitions. He lives and works in The Blue Mountains.
