Plinth Show: Amanda Agustin
October 29, 2024 – November 30, 2024
Miniature paintings by Amanda Agustin will feature on plinths in November 2024 at Bathurst Visitor Information Centre.
During Visitor Information Centre opening hours.
I have always loved to draw and been excited by making and looking at art. I find endless inspiration in the natural world, looking in close to capture detail. My hope is that the viewer may take pause to see otherwise unseen details or intricacies and share my wonder.
I live in Bathurst and find many ‘muses’ in our natural environment and the cycles of our four definite seasons. Often my pieces are in a specimen illustration style, on a plan background.
I am a member of t.Arts (Tablelands Artist Cooperative), which provides great contact and community with other local artists and an outlet to sell my work. Recently I have started a Certificate III in Visual Art at TAFE and look forward to progressing to the Diploma next year.
Plinth Show is a regional project of Arts OutWest placing three plinths and the work of a local artist in a different visitor information centre each month.
The plinth Show is open during Bathurst Visitor Information Centre opening hours, 9.30am-4.30pm
The artworks:
A Collection of Critters
These small paintings are my happy place, a celebration of tiny creatures and their details in colour. I enjoy taking notice of colour and form, while also letting the paint and brushstrokes remain evident.
I love ornate, vintage frames and have amassed quite a collection of them to use in my art making.
Garden Snail – Acrylic on board
Green Beetle – Oil on board
Common Brown Butterfly – Acrylic on board
A Promise of Return
The swallow is a symbol of hope, loyalty, familial bonds and the comforting embrace of home. I find the rhythms, cycles of nature and the journey and return that the swallow represents a comfort, a ‘Promise of Return’ no matter what.
This work is oil on Linen canvas. I have left the canvas blank to appreciate the colour and texture and to give the swallow centre stage and the whole focus.
The Eyes Have it
The eyes are the window to the soul. Eyes are my go-to for sketching. At a Frida Kahlo exhibition I gleefully noticed a full page of single eye sketches in one of her sketchbooks. These pieces and their ornate frames are in the style of Lover’s Eye jewellery miniatures of the late Eighteenth century. The smaller black and white piece is ink on paper and the larger is a cat’s eye in soft pastel on paper.
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