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08-30 November 2025
Kerwayne Berry: TLC Texture Light Colour
Solo exhibition
TLC brings together a series of landscape paintings that explore the quiet intimacy between light, texture, and colour — the subtle forces that shape how we see and feel place. Each work begins with close observation: the shift of light across water, the texture of weathered surface, the momentary warmth of evening air. Through layered brushwork and nuanced colour, these impressions are distilled rather than described, inviting viewers to sense rather than simply recognise the landscape.
The title TLC — a familiar abbreviation of “tender loving care” and in this context, “texture light colour” — gestures toward both the painter’s attentive process and the fragile balance of the environments depicted. In these works, tenderness becomes a way of seeing: light is handled with care, textures are built slowly, and colour holds memory and emotion in equal measure.
Ultimately, TLC is less about representation than about presence — an offering of time, attention, and reverence for the quiet beauty found in the natural world.
TLC — Texture | Light | Colour
Following my 2022 exhibition ‘Lightfall’ at Artsite Contemporary, this new body of work, ‘TLC — Texture | Light | Colour’ represents two years (2023–2025) of continued exploration into my enduring subject: the presence of nature and the emotional resonance it evokes.
My practice is rooted in an obsession with the elemental — the texture and solidity of rocks and boulders, the shifting hues of Australia’s tumultuous skies, the movement of water both turbulent and still, and the traces left behind in intricate natural markings. These motifs are not rendered literally, but transformed through a semi-abstract language where the seen and the felt intertwine.
Light remains central. It is the creator — revealing and shaping everything in nature, exposing textures, colours, and rhythms that move between the intimate and the vast. In many of these paintings, boundaries between land, sea, and sky shift in emphasis — sometimes clearly defined, at other times dissolving into layered perspectives that recall aerial views or glimpses through time.
Using mixed media and oil, I seek to translate the ineffable — the quiet awe, the raw energy, the meditative stillness — into visual form. My paintings are built in layers: tertiary tones and subtle surfaces carry the depth and stillness of landscape, while flashes of colour and light capture those fleeting moments when nature stops you in your tracks. I want each work to invite looking beyond the surface, revealing more with time, just as the natural world does.
While some works suggest horizons where land, sea, and sky meet, others open into abstraction — spaces less fixed, more personal. I prefer not to title my paintings, allowing viewers to find their own way in. Once complete, the work no longer belongs to me; it continues to evolve with whoever stands before it.
The title ‘TLC’ gestures toward both the painter’s attentive process and the fragile beauty of the natural world. It speaks to tenderness — to care in observation, patience in layering, and reverence for light as both subject and substance. Ultimately, ‘TLC’ is less about representation than about presence: an offering of time, attention, and the quiet wonder of being in dialogue with nature.
~ Kerwayne Berry, October 2025.
