Charles Blackman 'Metamorphosis' impressionism Between the bold lines and

Between the bold lines and curves are stars

from the 1957 painting

Alun was among the artists who with a hard edge - shifted the course of Australian art history

reminiscent of foliage caramelised under the Australian sun

This is a superb original etching from Australian artist Gaye Ellis

Charles Blackman 'Metamorphosis' impressionism Between the bold lines andIn Metamorphosis, Charles Blackman captures his beloved Alice enraptured by change. The work speaks to a universal yet deeply personal experience of transition, where imagination shapes reality and feeling becomes a form of sight. As poet Judith Wright observed, Blackmans images ask us to apprehend through emotion as much as through looking. Here, the figure dissolves and reforms within a field of graphic flowers and symbolic fragments, an aesthetic