Somewhere in the Tarkine

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
168cm x 153cm
$4,200

This painting attempts to encapsulates the weight of time that bears down heavily upon the rainforest interior and the subsequent effect on organisms within it.

Moss Garden

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
137cm x 107cm
$3,400

A clearing mist reveals an arcane garden surviving despite the elements imposed upon it.

9 Stages of Exploration

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on canvas
84cm x 83cm (9 panels)
$2,100

Travel through the Tarkine uncovers the organisms that inhabit the space. This work documents that exploration.

Tendrils 1

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
100cm x 90cm
$2,700

Limbs and Traceries seem to be threading the canopy for light.

Tendrils 2

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
100cm x 90cm
$2,700

A cycle continues as it has done for eons. Unhindered.

Arcane

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on board
3 panels
$1,750

I look across tree lines obscured by mist. This forest asks nothing of us. It is constant.

Tarkine Journal 1

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on board
(Framed) 45cm x 55cm
$730

A heavy moss coverage is clearly evident. It has an almost strangling appearance.

Tarkine Journal 2

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on board
(Framed) 45cm x 55cm
$730

A struggle for life as small sassafras take root at the base of an old Myrtle.

Tarkine Journal 3

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on board
(Framed) 45cm x 55cm
$730

I have a sense that the moss and lichen are silently commanding all other organisms.

Traverse, search. Eons of Time

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
49cm x 48cm
SOLD

I am confronted by Myrtle trees standing like silent sentinals.

Myrtle Study

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
49cm x 48cm
$680

The rickety nature of the average sized myrtles is clear to me.

Primordial 1

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
45cm x 43cm
$600

Immediately there is a great sense of age within this Interior.

Primordial 2

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
45cm x 43cm
SOLD

I think of the organisms that have become a victim of age.

Place of Dreams

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on board
(Framed) 43 cm diameter
$750

I find a dream like place with an eerie silence.

Place of Dreams 2

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on board
(Framed) 43 cm diameter
SOLD

I feel a foreboding sense of mystery.

Place of Dreams 3

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on board
Oil and Beeswax on Board (Framed) 43cm diameter
$750

I imagine what lies undiscovered beyond this point.

Secrets Veiled 1

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
41cm x 41cm
$610

Secrets veiled. The canopy it’s guise.

Secrets Veiled 2

Clifford How
2015
oil and beeswax on linen
41cm x 41cm
$610

Silently the cycle continues. Unaided.

Plein-Air Studies

Clifford How
2015
oil and graphite on card
Not for sale

This collection of works was completed over a period of time on location in some of Tasmania’s most remote rainforest locations. These works aid enormousley in translating an exhibition such as this in the relative comfort of a studio. These small studies assist not only with colour and form, but also the “feel” that is realised in the studio works.