Acrylic on board, 40cm x 40cm - pale wood box frame

Rick Eckersley - The word sensory describes that which connects us to the

physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight. It’s the word that

best describes the work of Rick Eckersley as a designer and artist.

Rick has been an influential and innovative creative force in Australia for

over four decades. Recognised as one of Australia’s foremost garden

designers, he challenged the traditional ideals of the Australian garden. As

a teacher, author and thought-leader, Rick has inspired a generation of

landscape designers and gardeners. He celebrated the forms, textures,

colours, sounds, and smells of trees, flowers and grasses. He taught us to

see beauty in the changing shapes and tones of a plant’s natural lifecycle.

Even ‘weeds’ had a place in an Eckersley Garden.

The way humans interact with their landscape has been at the heart of Rick

Eckersley’s work, and he continues to explore this theme in his art. Using a

combination of photography, collage and digital media, Rick’s abstract

pieces reveal his fascination with organic shape, pattern, texture and

colour.

Like his physical landscapes, Rick’s compositions demonstrate his love of

risk-taking, experimentation – going rogue. Images and forms are layered,

contrasted and juxtaposed. Colours are exalted or inverted, or both. The

stunning, often kaleidoscopic works draw us in and invite us to look

beyond. Sometimes recognisable botanical and figurative forms emerge

and recess into the abstract. In this way, the pieces simultaneously appear

familiar and otherworldly. And you, as the viewer, are left to contemplate

your place in the landscape and the visceral response it evokes.

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