Women of the Forest
2018 - 2020
James Whitington statement about the work:
In 1990 I was invited to exhibit paintings in a solo exhibition at the Blaxland Gallery in Sydney. The exhibition was entitled “The Tree”. The biomorphic focus to my work has continued to the present day, either as non-figuration or figuration. My current works “Women of the Forest” gather ancient mythology and embody it in an Australian forest landscape. The ancient nature myths of Cybele (The Phrygian Anatolian goddess of Nature handed down to the Greeks as Rhea and Demeter) are recontextualised. The trees in my works are eucalypts and the limbs of the figures and the trees are often juxtaposed and aligned. Behind the work is a biocentric view that supports the natural environment against anthropocentric exploitation and establishes a sense of harmony with nature.
 Mother's Children150 x 120cm
Acrylic on canvas
2020
$10,000 |  Women of the City150 x 120cm
Acrylic on canvas
2020
$8000 |  Women of the Forest150 x 120cm
Oil on canvas
2019
$12,000 |
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 Sabbat195 x 165cm
Acrylic on canvas
2020
$15,000 |  Sleep195 x 165cm
Acrylic on canvas
2019
$15,000 |  Mother165 x 165cm
Acrylic on canvas
2020
$12,000 |
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 Saved165 x 165cm
Acrylic on canvas
2019
$12,000 |  Nature Study165 x 165cm
Acrylic on canvas
2019
$14,000 |  The Blue Rose120 x 165cm
Oil on canvas
2019
$7000 |
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 Edge of the Forest160 x 160cm
Acrylic on canvas
2019
$10,000 |  Jaicee Green165 x 165cm
Acrylic on canvas
2020
$12,000 |  Attis and Cybele122 x 180cm
Oil on canvas
2018
$9500 |
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 Sunlight on the Angopheras165 x 195cm
Acrylic on canvas
2019
$14,000 |
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