Christopher Lees
“I'm not trying to paint a specific place — I'm trying to paint the feeling of standing in the Australian bush, where the silence, the light and the vastness take hold of you all at once.”
For over twenty years, Christopher Lees has created landscapes that move beyond geography to capture the spirit and sacred essence of the Australian environment. Transforming ordinary natural forms into quietly surreal icons, his work is drawn from a rich memory bank shaped by fishing expeditions and years spent travelling through remote Australia. Secret iron-coloured streams, towering eucalypts, and rugged mountainsides emerge in compositions that are carefully structured from initial sketches, balancing proportion with atmosphere.
A former opal miner who travelled extensively through the outback in his twenties, Lees brings an authority and authenticity to his monumental perspectives of the terrain. Now based in Victoria’s Murrindindi region, his panoramic and dioramic landscapes are still, stark and mysterious. With more than twenty-five years of sell-out exhibitions and representation in significant private and corporate collections across Australia and internationally, his work continues to resonate with collectors at home and abroad.
