IRRESISTIBLE YEARNING

JANINE GOOD

20 Paintings, 10 Drawings, 10 Original Prints

Irresistible Yearning 2001 Oil & acrylic diptych 180x240cm

Private Collection

Painted for:

WITHIN Exhibition (by Invitation)

Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Gippsland September 4 - September 20, 2001

Curated by Bill Young

An exhibition by artists all recent graduates of Monash University Gippsland, predominantly women (4 of the 5 exhibitors) creating large scale expressionist work with reference to landscape.

Irresistible Yearning is my response to attitudes common at the time like “Painting is dead”, “Beauty is outdated and irrelevant” - ideals that made me feel my work was obsolete.

Nature has always been the inspiration for Art and much of creativity - new discoveries are still being made. Even more critically relevant now than 20 years ago as we acknowledge the threat of anthropogenic climate change and realise that Nature is the basis of all life crucial to our own survival.

I found this quote by Goethe back in the 1700s that I embedded in the imagery of the painting:

“[S]He to whom Nature begins to reveal her open secret will feel an irresistible yearning for her most worthy interpreter - ART”

So began a body of work referencing Nature in a surreal and sometimes symbolic way that has been sustaining my interest and inspiration for more than two decades.

Looking For Quiet Time was also in WITHIN.

Other work on this page is related by theme.

Strange Birds, Oil on canvas, 105x115cm

Looking For Quiet Time, Pastel & Acrylic on board 125x110cm Private Collection

Seeking Nectar, Oil on canvas triptych 120x180cm

Finalist Waterhouse Prize

Private Collection SA

Banksia Aura,

Acrylic and Pastel on silver board 100x57cm

Finalist John Leslie Prize

Tapestry of Life, Oil on canvas 122x61cm

Red Tide, Oil on canvas 122x61cm

Private Collection

Heartstrings, Oil on canvas 122x61cm

Private Collection

Phoenix Rising, Pastel & Charcoal on Lana, 70x75cm

Private Collection

Rebirth, Pastel & Charcoal on Lana, 70x75cm

Private Collection

Unspeakable Unspoken, Oil on canvas 152x137cm

Finalist St Michael’s Archangel Prize

Open Secret, Oil & Acrylic on canvas, 157x122cm

Firefront, Oil on canvas 137x152cm

Painting Damaged 2015

A Snake at my Feet,

Acrylic and Pastel on silver board 100x57cm

First Flight Black Cockatoo,

Acrylic and Pastel on silver board 100x57cm

Private Collection QLD

Final Flight Bogong Moth,

Acrylic and Pastel on silver board 100x57cm

Private Collection QLD

All Talk No Action,

Acrylic and Pastel on silver board 120x90cm

Private Collection

New Direction, Pastel & Acrylic on board 105x130cm

Monash University Collection

New Wings 1, Pastel & gouache on board 40x19cm

Private Collection UK

New Wings 2, Pastel & gouache on board 40x19cm

Private Collection

New Wings 3, Pastel & gouache on board 40x19cm

Private Collection USA

Crowded Conversation, Oil on canvas 122x61cm

Painting damaged 2015

Wings I-III

Pastel & gouache on board 40x19cm

Monash University Collection

Wings IV-VI

Pastel & gouache on board 40x19cm

Monash University Collection

Rising Storm, Charcoal on Arches paper 49x56cm

Embryonic Landscape

Gouache & pastel on handmade paper 36x50cm

PRINTMAKING

11 Artworks

Printmaking is a useful medium for experimental work, using multiple plates overlaid, printing in different colour layers, using Chinecolle to add texture and colour and ultimately using etching plates to create monoprints.

The interrelationship between drawing, printmaking and painting has been an exciting interaction.