CHIP KAUFMAN - ARTIST
  • Australian Landscapes
  • Overseas Memories
  • Portraits
  • Life Draw & Paint
  • Early Work
  • About Me
  • Contact

Welcome


"Art for me is more about what I am observing than about myself.  I make images that honour Life itself.
Robert Hughes said: 
"One of the projects of art is to reconcile us with the world, not by protest, irony, or political metaphors, but by ecstatic contemplation of pleasure in nature."


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Australian Landscapes

I love the Australian landscape's rugged tenacity in the face of adversity, its timeless presence if I sit still and let it rise, its mythic redgums in (usually) dry creekbeds, and its early Settlement heritage.
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I love to paint landscapes en plein air, despite Australia's myriad flies and other critters!
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Chip coping with flies while painting
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Ross Bridge, Tasmania, 2016
55cm X 35cm framed
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Jacka's Brewery at Melrose, Flinders Ranges, 2012
55cm X 35cm (private collection)
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White Cliffs of Willochra Creek, 2015
55cm X 35cm framed

Overseas Memories

I remember my travel destinations most intensely by painting them.
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Bramante Church in Todi, Italy 2015 framed
42cm X 29cm framed
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S. Maria della Salute, Venice 2018
55cm X 36cm, framed
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Morning overlooking Hajar Mountains Valley, Oman, 2018
55cm X 36cm, unframed

Portraits

Since 1968 I have been drawing and painting ‘from life’, both figures and portraits.    I am particularly pleased when my portrait work captures not only a good illusion and likeness, but also some ‘presence’ about the individual portrayed, which may far outlast the life of that person.
It seems that humanity has always made images of humans, whether those images are primitive archetypes of fertility, or of royalty and power, or of just another individual at a particular moment in his or her life.  My work is part of that deeply human urge, to make a relatively permanent symbol of a definitely evanescent human.
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Self Portrait 1974 pen and ink
36cm X 28cm framed
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Portrait of a Man 2018
42cm X 28cm framed

Life Draw & Paint

The act of figurative painting can ‘possess’ me.
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Female Figure 2010 - pastels
50cm X 71cm framed
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Redheaded Linnea 2017
49cm X 36cm framed
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Reclining Nude from behind 2014
42cm X 29cm unframed

Early Work

I now recognise my early portraits and figurative works as some of my best.  
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Self Portrait 1976 pen and ink
augmented by a rainstorm
35cm X 27cm framed
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Man from behind, leaning on elbow - 1974 - charcoal
62cm X 46cm framed
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  • Australian Landscapes
  • Overseas Memories
  • Portraits
  • Life Draw & Paint
  • Early Work
  • About Me
  • Contact