ARTISTS | Charmaine Pike
Charmaine Pike works and lives in inland New South Wales. Her painting practice reflects the rich tones of the natural land forms that populate the area where she lives. However, her works are far from representational landscapes. Rather, they distort form, colour and line, and mostly look inwards exploring psychological tension. Landscape forms are personified and relate to each other within the picture plane, playing out are aspects of the human condition such as alienation and isolation, loneliness, conflict, despair, struggle. Offset with humour, Pike’s lyrical and chromatically rich landscapes are at times comical and absurd in an attempt to create a unique visual language.
Pike studied at NSW’s College of Fine Arts and has had five solo exhibitions.
Artworks:
Pandemonium, 2016
Charmaine Pike, Arrival, Acrylic on board, 60x60cm
Charmaine Pike, Burning Mountain, Acrylic on board, 90x122cm
Charmaine Pike, Divided We Fall, Acrylic on board, 120x120cm
Charmaine Pike, Gleanings, Acrylic on board, 60x60cm
Charmaine Pike, Intergalactic, Acrylic on board, 90x122cm
Charmaine Pike, In the Valley, Acrylic on board, 90x122cm
Charmaine Pike, Irredenta, Acrylic on board, 60x60cm
Charmaine Pike, Paradox, Acrylic on board, 64x61cm
Charmaine Pike, Roaming, Acrylic on board, 90x122cm
Charmaine Pike, The Gathering, Acrylic on board, 60x60cm
Charmaine Pike, The Other Dimension, Acrylic on board, 90x122cm
Charmaine Pike, The Strays, Acrylic on board, 122x100cm
Charmaine Pike, Thou Art Loosed, Acrylic on board, 90x122cm
Charmaine Pike, Toqueville, acrylic on board, 120x120cm
Charmaine Pike, The Unknown II, 40x40cm, Acrylic on board, 2016
Charmaine Pike, The Unknown I, 40x40cm, Acrylic on board, 2016
Charmaine Pike, Sticks and stones, 40x40cm, Acrylic on board, 2016
Charmaine Pike, Paradox, 63.5x61cm, acrylic on board
Charmaine Pike, Guarded, 40x40cm, Acrylic on board, 2016
Charmaine Pike, Aftermath, 40x50cm, Acrylic on board, 2016
Charmaine Pike, Earthen Splendour II, 120x120cm, Acrylic on board
Charmaine Pike, Glen-Davis, 63.5x61cm, acrylic on board, 2016
Landforms, 2015
Charmaine Pike, Dry, 76x76cm
Charmaine Pike, Four Clouds, 51x61cm
Charmaine Pike, Helter Skelter, 76x91cm
Charmaine Pike, Outside Inside, 30x40cm
Charmaine Pike, Regrowth, 51x61cm
Charmaine Pike, Rock Formations, 76x76cm
Charmaine Pike, Rock Theatre, 30x40cm
Charmaine Pike, Rugged Land, 76x76cm
Charmaine Pike, Stillness, 46x61cm
Charmaine Pike, The Foreboding Lands, 51x61cm
Charmaine Pike, The Hideaway, 46x61cm
Charmaine Pike, TheProdigals, 30x40cm
Exhibitions:
Pandemonium | Charmaine Pike
Landforms & Lagoons | Sue Lovegrove + Charmaine Pike
