Thursday gallery crawl: Nanda/Hobbs and Piermarq

This is the third post with regard to Yianni's and my outing recently to galleries in Sydney.

Nanda/Hobbs had the paintings of Peter Gardiner, sort of a cross between Surrealism and seventeenth century Dutch flower still lifes. They also had a distinctly sixties feel about them, a bit harlequin-ish.

At Piermarq Javier Ruiz was displayed. Also something gay and feckless about these realist paintings (see below).

Thick impasto paint going right over the edges of the canvasses made these works hefty and heavy-looking. I liked the Namatjira echoes.