A PAINTING that dared to be different has won the coveted prize in the Launceston Art Society’s Celebrating Life exhibition.
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Margaret Baker’s Another Grey Sunday, an acrylic on canvas, took judge Ann Keaton by surprise.
She said the landscape looked cold but was filled with emotion ... ‘‘the painting is not pretty but instead is dramatic’’.
‘‘When I first looked at it, I thought, ‘I hate black paintings’, but I kept on looking at it and it grew on me,’’ she said.
‘‘It is itself. It is not like anything else and is not in the mainstream of what
most people are doing, which makes it interesting.
‘‘Putting something in the middle of a painting is something that you are never allowed to do in art, but there are musicians who do things that you are never allowed to do because it sounds awful and everyone thinks it sounds awful but then ... it sounds right.’’
She said there were many other lovely paintings in the exhibition, all of which were varied, making the task of judging extremely difficult.
She said she chose The Door is Always Open by Jenny Davis for the religious art prize because of its simplicity.
‘‘Just by scraping you have these beautiful textures, and it sits well on the canvas. It would look beautiful on a big wall,’’ she said.