Thursday 2 July 2015

Bonnard (July)


Pierre Bonnard attends to each tree with individual rigour. He has all day to make life of this bayside garden. Supplemental gold is logical with July wattle starting and his soft blacks suffice to map out she-oaks and ironbarks. Perhaps it’s one of the Cheltenham golf courses he frequented for a time, not for sport but the flora. With faultless outline he gets at the essential singularity of over-the-top banksias as skilfully as sandy scrub-bushes with delicate grey veins and purple diamond flowers. But pattern is only one element. Air, light, colour, substance are the subjects of his steady gaze.

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