QG Focus: Steve Lopes & Wayne Viney

Exhibition dates: Mar 6 – 17, 2025

Artistic plein-air painting and monotype methods present a contrasting Australian environment in the Steve Lopes & Wayne Viney QG Focus.

Artists’ Statements

Steve Lopes Lake Song Paintings

Steve Lopes’s small series of works painted alongside water’s regenerative motion and sound led to the discovery that working by the lake and shorelines allows meditative proximity that fosters a peaceful connection between the soul and landscape.

Wayne Viney The Storm Clouds

The Storm Clouds monotypes capture the dynamic effects of light in the landscape. Land and sea are reduced to a horizontal band, allowing the focus to be on the sky, the weather, changing light, clouds forming and storms passing, and the transience of nature.

The works reference the romantic tradition, acknowledging the 19th-century artists Constable and Turner. Monotype – proving the perfect medium for the spontaneity, unpredictability, and ability to capture light.