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Edith Cowlishaw has been long recognised as a master Australian Artist printmaker.
A recognition that has been gained over a lifetime of dedication to the technique of etching and her enduring bush walking passion. This relationship with the native flora and bush landscape of Australia is evoked in her detailed intaglio drawings of the delicate native plants and flowers, often overlooked, hidden in the undergrowth of the bush.
Cowlishaws' passion for the bush echoes with bush walkers world wide. Her mastery of technique and aesthetic is obvious; it is both a great recommendation of and recognition for, her skills as printmaker and artist, that her work is represented in the personal collection of the Japanese Royal family.
How very necessary it is to train ourselves to observe the natural beauty around us so that in the exuberance of our beautification schemes we shall not do things that disturb and eventually destroys the landscape. ...seldom, if ever, do we achieve the quiet perfection of Nature’s planting. ~ Edna Walling, 1945.
Edith Cowlishaw is a bush walker and, like well-known Australia artist Margaret Preston, loves walking around the local bushland parks in suburban Sydney and as far afield as her recent explorations in the forests in Manjimup, Western Australia.
Her affinity for the natural plantings of the Australian bush, evident all through Edith's career, are environmentally increasingly important in the current debate over global warming.
Edith's passion for the subtle natural plantings that occur between the trees of our bushland is shown in these finely detailed and delicately executed etchings that celebrate more than fifty years of her personal observations.
Cowlishaw's sensitivity and powers of observation make us look, and look carefully again, at the minutiae that is the Australian bush.
To take a walk through Edith Cowlishaw's eyes is (in the words of John Stilgoe), to enjoy the best-kept secret around - the ordinary, everyday landscape that touches any explorer with magic.
("Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places" 1998).
Arguably one of Australia's longest working Master Printmaker's, Edith Cowlishaw (b.1923) is represented in many Public Collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT; The MAGAM Collection, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney NSW; The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney NSW; The Coles Myer Collection of Australian Art; The BRAG Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; The Portland Collection, Lithgow City, NSW; The Private Collection of the Japanese Royal Family, Tokyo Royal Palace, Japan; as well as numerous private and public collections in Australia and Internationally.
..it was in Australia that I gained my first impressions of the beauty of the world, and it was the Bush that taught me. ~ Tom Roberts.
Public Collections include:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
The MAGAM Collection, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney NSW
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
The Coles Myer Collection of Australian Art.
BRAG Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Private Collections:
Royal Family, Tokyo Royal Palace, Japan; Korea; Australia, and Europe
Available Work
![PREVIEW[23], in Gallery_1, offers new works anticipating our Artists exhibitions planned for 2023. Exhibitions dates: 03-11 December 2022 and weekends 14-29 January 2023.](https://artsite.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/pv23-category-wp.webp)
![REVIEW[22], celebrate the close of our 2022 exhibitions program with REVIEW[22] in Gallery_2. Exhibitions dates: 03-11 December 2022 and weekends 14-29 January 2023. All Welcome. Artwork detail: Christine Druitt Preston: Revisiting Earlier Days - Tuntable Creek, 2021.](https://artsite.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/rv22-hero-wp.webp)
