March 30, 2021 - June 30, 2021
BERNARD OLLIS – CROSSROADS
Artist:
Bernard Ollis OAM
Location:
cherubino wines margaret river
CHERUBINO WINES MARGARET RIVER - 30 MARCH - 30 JUNE
Bernard Ollis is one of those painters who elude easy categorization. This is at best a mixed blessing, because art historians love to be able to define an artist as an expressionist, a realist, a surrealist, or some plausible combination. Ollis is a little of each, but ultimately none of the above..
Ollis is a narrative painter, but each picture is nothing more than a fragment. He will begin with a simple setting such as a bedroom, a street, or a patio, and gradually add the dramatis personae and details. A work develops it’s own momentum, with objects, people or animals multiplying as if by spontaneous generation. While Ollis may begin with a specific idea, by the time the painting is finished it has usually metamorphosed into something quite different.