Jock Young
A YEAR IN AVALON

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These painting are mainly the result of this year living on Sydney’s northern beaches and Pittwater. This is where I grew up and first started to paint.

I have been returning at different times from Tasmania where I live, to see family and would take my paints as part of those trips. After many years living away we returned for, as I called it, a year in Avalon.

I am a firm believer in painting out-of-doors to get to the heart of a place. So, all of these paintings are started outside, either from a sketch, a gouache or directly with oil paint.  Inevitably they are finished in the studio, although I do try and keep the freshness that working outside brings.

These paintings are the result of that process and of our time here.