Carle Hessay 1965 Mountain Lake

Carle Hessay: Mountain Lake

"From viewing distance this picture appears to be closely harmonized in both colour and textures. It is surprising to find, upon closer inspection, that it was painted in a very free and vigorous manner. The brush strokes move in rhythmic flicks and bold slashes....Mountain Lake, in contrast to many of his later paintings, is a straight-forward romantic landscape with no veiled symbolism or psychological implication." From Leonard A. Woods, Meditations on the Paintings of Carle Hessay (Trabarni, 2005).