On the Land

Friday, 25 November – Sunday, 22 January 2023.

Mark Dober is a landscape painter who lives in Castlemaine, central Victoria. He makes his work on site in the surrounding forest and pastoral landscape. Mark also paints further afield, and will be undertaking a residency in our region to make work for his exhibition of wall-sized watercolours at Swan Hill Regional Gallery. Working flat on the ground, Mark responds in a tactile way to the near and the far: grasses and weedy plants, logs and trees, fences and farm houses, water and sky, the weather and the season, light and space. Mark’s work conveys a sense of being within the landscape. Landscape is experienced as environment.