'Acheron No. 9', Philip Hunter (1958-2017)
Pondering
again the Acheron works of Philip Hunter, this April. His intense awareness of
combustible nature. His acceptance of fire’s destructive power. His interest in
regrowth being the environment we walk through each day. The conventions of art
offer little assistance to describe the implicit reality of bushfire across the
landscape. Two days can change everything in sight. Imitating the cliché
watercolours of my grandparents’ time, those grand views of huge eucalypts and
distant blue hills, Philip took to the surface instead with red conté, dark
orange oil paint, black ink, brown chalk. Nature’s presence toughs it out
between blazes.
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