We are excited to share that Hobie Porter has been awarded the Boys’ Choice Award in the Kings School Art Prize for his incredible work Precipice.
“My work brings to light the hidden, inaccessible landscapes of the Tweed Valley region. These hyperrealistic paintings depict the sweeping panoramic views with intricate, delicate detail capturing the gothic mystery of the Australian landscape. Recently in my practice, I have been working with drone footage, accessing impenetrable escarpments and dense rainforest/bush within my immediate environment, achieving interesting perspectives of country. A feeling of weightlessness has always been important to the kind of paintings I want to create. The drone has liberated me to access remote sites at key moments when the light and atmosphere awakens the land, as fleeting as it often is. I think that weightless feeling is important as it offers a point of emotional poise or distance. Flying my drone into the mist has the ability to conceal and yet also reveal landscape. The mist also has this guaranteed ability to disorient. Within a painting, mist offers a way of activating a kind of ethereal quality which I find really enchanting.” - Hobie Porter Artist Statement
Congratulations to Hobie Porter!
