Congratulations Kerry McInnis who is a finalist in the 2023 National Capital Art Prize (NCAP). Now in its third year, the NCAP attracts submissions by artists from around Australia, with every state and territory represented. This prestigious award, founded by Robert Stephens, promotes innovative and new art across three categories and offers $45,000 cash in prizes. McInnis describes the source of inspiration for her stunning work, ‘A Light Snow Fell’, below. The painting will be hung in the finalists’ exhibition at Aarwun Gallery, Canberra, from 16 September, 2023. For further information, please visit NCAP
“This oil painting, like much of my oeuvre, depicts a waterway, a creek. Much of this artist’s life has been spent sketching and painting on the edges of creek beds and rivers. My muse, Whiskers Creek, has been my constant companion and subject, in drought and in flood, in winter and in summer. I am hoping to evoke a sensation of cold, an appreciation of beauty in an early morning walk along an insignificant creek after a light snow has fallen”- Kerry McInnis, 2023.