Launceston-born artist David Keeling wins second Glover Prize for oil on canvas work Lowtide, Soft Breeze

The Hobart-based painter won the $40,000 landscape prize for his oil on canvas work Lowtide, Soft Breeze - a depiction of the shoreline track at Greens Beach as it heads towards the Narawntapu National Park. 

A decade between wins, Keeling won his first Glover for 45 Minute Walk - Narawntapu in 2006. 

The way the light plays off Northern Tasmanian coastal landscapes continued to fascinate Keeling, he said.

"What has particularly fascinated me recently is looking deeper into the way the foliage and everything is put together, so the detail of it, to me, tells me more than the big vista that we see so much in Tasmanian landscape photography. I want to go right in and understand the way the whole thing is put together.

"We have my wife's family home at Kelso so we come up to the North of the state as much as we can.

"Since about 2000 I've started doing a lot of work around the Narawntapu National Park up at West Head. 

"About this time last year, almost to the day really, we had two friends come over from Melbourne and we thought 'Oh, we'll take them take them for a walk around the coastal track from Greens Beach'.

"It was such a lovely day and I was so struck by the track that hugs the shoreline that I thought, I've got to go back there and try and paint this."