Sentinel, Nobbys Beach, 2025, oil on canvas, 71 x 71cm. $1250
Lamb’s Ear, 2019, oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm. $1250
Sunset, Nobbys Beach, 2025, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm. $250
The paintings are based on photographs of the natural environment. All are closeups and show fragments of a bigger picture. Earlier landscapes depicted my cold climate garden in Blackheath, focussing on the riot of colours, textures and dense profusion of its native and exotic plants.
The more recent beach scapes explore the expansiveness of the Port Macquarie coastline and its distinctive rock formations. Nobbys Beach is a favourite because of its unique headland and that lone tree that somehow manages to survive on the central rocks.
The paintings recognisably belong to the landscape genre but like any painting they construct ways of seeing. Colours are changed, elements added and deleted. The reappearance of Blue Mountains flora in some of the beach works references my move from the Blue Mountains to Port Macquarie.
- Malcolm Harding, 2025
Coastal Waratah, 2024, oil on canvas, 26 x 31cm. $265
Shelley Beach, 2025, oil on canvas, 25 x 21cm. $250
Bluebells, 2019, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm. SOLD
Coastal Banksia, 2024, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm. $220
Seedpod, 2024, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm. $220
Three Banksias, 2024, oil on canvas, 25 x 21cm. SOLD
Coast Watch, 2024, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm. SOLD
Blackheath Garden, 2019, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm. SOLD
Rocks, Shelly Beach, 2025, oil on canvas, 41 x 61cm. $650
Outcrop, Nobbys Beach, 2025, oil on canvas, 41 x 51cm. $650
Mountain Walk, 2021, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm. SOLD
Storm Approaching, 2025, oil on canvas, 21 x 25cm. $250
Red Splash, 2024, oil on canvas, 26 x 31cm. $265
Incoming Tide, 2025, oil on canvas, 21 x 25cm. $250
Leucodendron, 2019, oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm. $250
Miners Beach, 2025, oil on canvas, 41 x 122cm. $950