Bruce Vinall

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That Which is Past

1984, Acrylic on canvas,
122.0 X 152.0 cms,
from B Ed Folio,
SACAE, Adelaide, 1984

Wild and Delicate

1992, Oil, oil stick and enamel on linen,
126.0 X 153.0 cms, 'Illusionistic Abstracts',
Alan Lane Community Gallery,
Warrnambool, 1992,

The Hour After Midnight

1992, Oil on linen,
153.0 X 126.0 cms,
from Illusionistic Abstracts, Alan Lane Community Gallery, Warrnambool, 1992


The Merrivale Suite

Left Panel: Sounds from the River Cutting

1994 Oil on Linen,
152.0 X 83.0 cms

Centre Panel: Yellow Heart from the Dunes

1994 Oil on Linen,
152.0 X 122.0 cms

Right Panel: Merrivale Dreaming

1994 Oil on linen,
152.0 x 83.0 cms
Exhibited in all 'The Merrivale Suite and Other Paintings' exhibitions,
now in the collection of Swinburne University.

Little Autumn Painting

2008, Oil on linen,
60.5 X 45.5 cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

Left - Autumn Improvization 1

2008, Oil on linen,
152.0 x 91.0cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.


Right - Autumn Improvization 2

2008, Oil on linen,
152.0 x 91.0cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

Journey Through Space, Light and Time

1999, Oil on linen,
122.0 x 122.0 cms,
From PhD presentation, Melbourne, 2002

Currents of Hope

2006, Collage and Mixed media on linen,
45.0 X 61.0 cms,
at Customs House Gallery, Warrnambool.

Paintings

For more than twenty years Vinall has lived in southwestern Victoria and this environment infuses his art.

The artist is a dedicated walker and is inspired in particular by the rugged coast, the wetlands and the extensive, coastal dune system near his studio in Merrivale, an outer district of Warrnambool. Merrivale also has suburban, rural and industrial aspects and these too are an influence. An important group of paintings that was first exhibited in 1997 was called the 'Merrivale Suite'.

Left - Pensive Light

1995, Oil on linen,
152.0 X 91.0 cms

Right - Gathering Storm and Black Diamond Strings

1995, Oil on Linen
152.00 X 122.0 cms

Both of the above were exhibited in the Merrivale Suite and Other paintings exhibitions, Warrnambool ARt GAllery, Warrnambool, 1997, Phillis Palmer Gallery, Bendigo, 2000, Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne 2002.

After working on paper for several years the artist has returned to canvas, linen to be precise, producing new mixed media works, including Volcanic Inscape 1 and Volcanic Inscape 2, which were derived from plein-air studies made at Tower Hill, an extinct, volcanic caldera on the plains near Warrnambool. The two 'inscapes' are technically complex works. Materials include acrylic, ground silica, oil pastel and pigmented ink. In 2008 Vinall began to work in oils and he is currently working on a major suite of paintings, inspired by the ancient and beautiful, Vedic Hymn of Creation.

Volcanic Inscape 1

2007, Mixed media on canvas,
45.5 X 119.5 cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

Volcanic Inscape 2

2007, Mixed media on linen,
122.0 X 152.0 cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

Gethsemane

2008, Oil on linen,
152.0 x 91.0 cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

Hymn of Creation 1

2008, Oil & Acrylic on linen,
152.0 x 152.0 cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

Hymn of Creation 2

2008, Oil on linen,
152.0 x 152.0 cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

Hymn of Creation 3

2008, Oil & Acrylic on linen,
152.0 x 152.0 cms,
at Merrivale Studio, Warrnambool.

 

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