Travelling Through is an exhibition of new and recent works by Coffs Harbour artist Rowena Post and Port Macquarie artist Tony Williams, where both abstract and surrealist visions are bought onto the canvas.

Borne of a chance encounter on a train to Sydney, Travelling Through details a shared vision for the capture of light and moments, of storytelling through the raw beauty of the Australian bush, and glimpses of an inner world within us all. 

Travelling Through embodies dual concepts of travelling in time and physically travelling from place to place. This is what we are all doing in this world, in this life.

Now, more than ever, we have good reason to be acutely aware and appreciative of the beauty and vibrating pulse of the natural world. This exhibition is a distillation of Rowena and Tony’s impressions of that beauty and the effect it has on each of us.

Rowena Post and Tony Williams are both practicing artists, inspired by creatives such as Elizabeth Cummings, John Gleeson, Ross Laurie and Angus Nivison.

Rowena Post:

‘For me this exhibition is all about finding the light and bringing that into people’s lives. It is about rejoicing, relishing and valuing each precious moment. It is about giving. It is about being brave and making our way through the world along unexplored tracks where beauty and unexpected vistas are revealed if you are prepared to seek them out.

The world can be a dark place but to me there seems to always be a flipside.

And yet, underneath all of this, we know we must do this alone. We can describe, we can paint, but the experience of each viewer is a deeply unique and personal one and one that cannot be fully shared or known.’

Tony Williams:

‘I have had a love affair with the Aussie bush all my life since I was a kid growing up in the wild Colo region north-west of Sydney. I’m constantly filled with wonder and amazement at the rocks, trees, scrub, colours, mountains and gullies of the coastal fringe, the Dividing Range, and the vast interior. I call my style ‘abstract landscape’. My current work is a distillation of ideas, colours and images, gleaned over the years of living and travelling across Australia. Currently I am fascinated by the trees, especially the majestic eucalypts. The paintings are my response to this beautiful and fragile land.’

Artist websites:

https://tonywilliamsartist.com/

https://www.rowenapost.com/

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EPk1WaViw/

Tortuga Studios
Opening Friday 19^th September 2025, 6-9pm

Exhibition runs from 19^th September-27^th 2025

Gallery Hours: Sat & Sun, 10am-3pm or view by appointment.

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Tortuga Studios is proud to present
PERCEPTIONS OF THE MIRACULOUS
– New Paintings by Rowena Post

We invite you to the Opening Night Friday the 19th April 2013.

Skeletons of recollections past emerge from the marks Rowena Post has nurtured into the surface of her artwork.
The shifting hues and line work speak to the viewer of both our and others’ realities.
Dissolved and shimmering visions….Moments of clarity or just mirages?

Just as it has taken the artist some time to create her stories using lines and planes of colour manipulated into a kind of symbolism or language, it takes time to unravel the riddles and mysteries of each painting. The viewer takes away their own personal story from their experience of the painting.

In these works the artist intends you to  glimpse both the realistic and the spiritual where both are related to the rawness of life, the reality of death and abundance and the presence of hope.

The works reference the local and late Australian artists such as Ken Whisson, Ross Laurie, Angus Nivison and Ian Fairweather. They were also informed by artists such as Joan Miro and James Gleeson among others.

Working now in the New England region of New South Wales Rowena’s work nonetheless is still influenced by moments captured and carried from years spent living in the outskirts and suburbs of Sydney which have found their way into abstract landscapes flavoured with colours typical of her new home and surrounds.

The melding of the vastness of the land and country with the years spent in the intestines and gritty jowls of the concrete and red brick 70s permeates some of the more intense works.

Layers of paint were applied and worked over in a sunlit studio. Chooks, the dog and the occasional visit by a magpie provided a respite or gateway in the silence to prompt these pieces of story.

The echo of a yell from the past and the persistence of the sun swept landscape with its trees and their skeletons mix together as stories past and present converge.

See more of Rowena Post’s work:
http://pinterest.com/post8/
www.artiepost.com.au
or contact via:
rowena.artiepost@gmail.com

Opening Night Friday the 19th April 2013
Exhibition 19th – 28th April 2013

Gallery Hours :
11am – 7pm Wednesday-Sunday
Or by appointment
Please call : 0402 573 321 or email tortugastudiosinc@gmail.com

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