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AFTERNOON IN MELBOURNE, 2008 MIXED MEDIA ON HANDMADE PAPER 17X21 IN. | 42X52 CM.
paintings, incorporating multicolored material layers, colors that the city displays, to guide her interpretation of
silk, ribbons and various fabrics and beads, for a three city scenes. She has also produced mixed media creations
dimensional effect for cityscapes, sky-lined against rich, of other cities for commissioned works. Agnes uses
vibrant watercolor skies. In particular her watercolors can pigment to achieve moody dynamic skies and textures, for
take up of fourteen layers of carefully applied individual colorful buildings, to support her message, her paintings
hues. Agnes’s use of watercolor washes has received local, convey the time of day and the atmosphere of the city in
regional, national and international recognition. a very different way from that normally seen in artistic
Agnes uses her own photographs of her favorite city, interpretations.
Melbourne, to capture the different times of day and the Agnes works with different media and materials to produce
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