Plein air artist captures industrial landscape
Award-winning artist Zuza Zochowski has shifted her plein air practice, Jennifer Macey reports
By Jennifer Macey
If you visited Port Kembla Harbour last year you may have seen a solitary figure on a camp stool, painting on grey linen paper. If you looked over her shoulder you would have seen Port’s industrial landscape emerge, as if by magic, in soft watercolour.
Award-winning artist Zuza Zochowski has shifted her plein air practice from sea and streetscapes to paintings of cobalt-blue cargo ships, mountains of coal and clouds puffing out of grey stacks.
Her goal is to explore contrasts: “The contrast of human structures and organic shapes, but also the contrasts of what I feel about this area. I’m in awe of industry but also know that it’s not working well for our environment.”
Zuza’s show, The Familiar and the Strange, will be at Sydney’s Damien Minton Presents in Surry Hills, March 3-14, follow @zuzazochowski on Instagram.
Artist Zuza Zochowski has an exhibition in Sydney, ending on March 14.
