Patricia van Lubeck is a self-taught artist. In recent years her visually dynamic, pattern-oriented works show landscapes and weird plant species which she calls her psychedelic gardens.

The auction of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art at Christie’s later this month will offer a pair of rediscovered paintings of historical importance that was found in an attic, and which was identified and consigned to auction through none other that Christie’s iPhone application.

David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both.

The Empress wanders long lanes of night oak. She looks up from the portrait, west, into the lowering lids of buttercup.
From “Turifumy of Butterfly Breathing – after Anne Siems”

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