Curio

State Library of New South Wales
Colin Lanceley in his studio in Sydney, NSW, Australia, at 10.24am on April 27, 2004

Colin Lanceley in his studio in Sydney, NSW, Australia, at 10.24am on April 27, 2004

PXD 1090

"I have so many things that I want to say as an artist — not how to be original so much as just how to be sort of powerfully engaged around the truth of a painting, (so) that it continues to reveal aspects of itself after it’s finished and it’s on someone else’s wall,I think a lot of the satisfaction to be gained from painting is to do with that. It’s interesting that making art is very fundamental to being alive, somehow. That’s the way I feel about it, anyhow.”

Colin Lanceley in his last interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper January 20, 2015

Detail

By John McDonald "Studio- Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity photographed by R. Ian Lloyd"

'One of the most compelling aspects of Lloyd's photographs is the great mass of detailed information they contain. This leads to a number of observations about the relationship between artists and their studios. Firstly, we become aware of the way in which the world of colour, light and subject seems to be compressed into a single space, and the continuum between these conditions and the works of art that are produced...'