Andy Sumner 🎨
@andys-art.bsky.social
Painter, amateur photographer, writer, ENFP, leftie, profoundly irreligious, based in Canberra.
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At long last, the Expanse exhibition is on, today through Sunday, in the shell of the old observatory on Mt Stromlo Canberra, featuring many of my recent paintings and work by my artist friends Cassandra and Gautam. This has been an absolute labour of love. If you're in the area please come visit!
June 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
At long last, the Expanse exhibition is on, today through Sunday, in the shell of the old observatory on Mt Stromlo Canberra, featuring many of my recent paintings and work by my artist friends Cassandra and Gautam. This has been an absolute labour of love. If you're in the area please come visit!
This magical location will soon host "Expanse", the art event of the year - you don't want to miss it!
Mt Stromlo, Canberra, June 20-22
Mt Stromlo, Canberra, June 20-22
June 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This magical location will soon host "Expanse", the art event of the year - you don't want to miss it!
Mt Stromlo, Canberra, June 20-22
Mt Stromlo, Canberra, June 20-22
A quick preview of my solo show "Uplands" opening tonight at the Capital Wines gallery, 13 Gladstone St Hall ... all welcome!
May 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A quick preview of my solo show "Uplands" opening tonight at the Capital Wines gallery, 13 Gladstone St Hall ... all welcome!
"A lone road train in the channel country" is synthetic polymer on 130x180cm unstretched canvas/linen blend, part of the upcoming Expanse exhibition, 20-22 June, Yale Columbia Dome, Canberra.
May 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"A lone road train in the channel country" is synthetic polymer on 130x180cm unstretched canvas/linen blend, part of the upcoming Expanse exhibition, 20-22 June, Yale Columbia Dome, Canberra.
Where a desert creek meets Lake Torrens in South Australia, it spreads into a marshy delta where life erupts in a profusion of colour, even venturing out onto the salt of the lake - it's tenacious, beautiful and magnificent.
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched linen/canvas blend
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched linen/canvas blend
May 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Where a desert creek meets Lake Torrens in South Australia, it spreads into a marshy delta where life erupts in a profusion of colour, even venturing out onto the salt of the lake - it's tenacious, beautiful and magnificent.
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched linen/canvas blend
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched linen/canvas blend
Just finished a painting and wanted to share a detail closeup shot - it's night here, so I'll take proper photos in the morning.
May 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Just finished a painting and wanted to share a detail closeup shot - it's night here, so I'll take proper photos in the morning.
The shell of the old observatory on Mt Stromlo #Canberra will come to life on the weekend of 20-22nd June, as my friends Cassandra Dove, Gautam Jhanjee and I fill it with a spectacular collection of paintings.
I'd love to see you there!
I'd love to see you there!
May 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The shell of the old observatory on Mt Stromlo #Canberra will come to life on the weekend of 20-22nd June, as my friends Cassandra Dove, Gautam Jhanjee and I fill it with a spectacular collection of paintings.
I'd love to see you there!
I'd love to see you there!
My upcoming solo exhibition, featuring a large body of my work from 2024.
Uplands is heavily inspired by Canberra, with its quiet suburbs nestled in the valleys under the wild spaces of hills and mountains..
If you'd like a personal tour of the exhibition, please DM!
Uplands is heavily inspired by Canberra, with its quiet suburbs nestled in the valleys under the wild spaces of hills and mountains..
If you'd like a personal tour of the exhibition, please DM!
May 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
My upcoming solo exhibition, featuring a large body of my work from 2024.
Uplands is heavily inspired by Canberra, with its quiet suburbs nestled in the valleys under the wild spaces of hills and mountains..
If you'd like a personal tour of the exhibition, please DM!
Uplands is heavily inspired by Canberra, with its quiet suburbs nestled in the valleys under the wild spaces of hills and mountains..
If you'd like a personal tour of the exhibition, please DM!
That feeling of a vast expanse that stretches out beyond where the eye can see. Inspired by a tiny, isolated, treeless opal-mining town deep in the South Australian desert out west of the huge dried salt pan that is Lake Torrens.
Andamooka
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched canvas
Andamooka
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched canvas
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
That feeling of a vast expanse that stretches out beyond where the eye can see. Inspired by a tiny, isolated, treeless opal-mining town deep in the South Australian desert out west of the huge dried salt pan that is Lake Torrens.
Andamooka
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched canvas
Andamooka
Acrylic and ink on 120x180cm unstretched canvas
This last painting in my huge four part polyptych inspired by the desert north of the Flinders Ranges, is about endings. Streams wander into the scene, past dunes and the remnant foundations of ancient mountains, then meet the salty embrace of the lake. I hope it conveys what I wanted to express!
April 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This last painting in my huge four part polyptych inspired by the desert north of the Flinders Ranges, is about endings. Streams wander into the scene, past dunes and the remnant foundations of ancient mountains, then meet the salty embrace of the lake. I hope it conveys what I wanted to express!
I guess there's worse ways to spend a Sunday morning 😊
March 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I guess there's worse ways to spend a Sunday morning 😊
Exploring the shell of the Yale Columbia Dome, an observatory on Mt Stromlo in Canberra destroyed in the 2003 bushfire.
The quiet space with its looming textured walls and empty windows overlooking spectacular mountains are perfect for my popup exhibition in June called Expanse.
Details to come!
The quiet space with its looming textured walls and empty windows overlooking spectacular mountains are perfect for my popup exhibition in June called Expanse.
Details to come!
March 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Exploring the shell of the Yale Columbia Dome, an observatory on Mt Stromlo in Canberra destroyed in the 2003 bushfire.
The quiet space with its looming textured walls and empty windows overlooking spectacular mountains are perfect for my popup exhibition in June called Expanse.
Details to come!
The quiet space with its looming textured walls and empty windows overlooking spectacular mountains are perfect for my popup exhibition in June called Expanse.
Details to come!
I don't usually talk in depth about what I'm expressing in paintings - text limit is too short for it! I felt this one needed more of an explanation, so you'll find it there in the images 😊
March 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I don't usually talk in depth about what I'm expressing in paintings - text limit is too short for it! I felt this one needed more of an explanation, so you'll find it there in the images 😊
A new painting in progress, complete with toes
March 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A new painting in progress, complete with toes
Tonight's sunset over the Brindabellas
March 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Tonight's sunset over the Brindabellas
In this painting I imagined dry streams meandering through the desert, as if in search of something... one meets the salt of the lake, where its journey ends, the other's continues on to destination unknown.
From an antique land, part 1/4
Acrylic and ink on 170x190cm unstretched canvas/linen blend
From an antique land, part 1/4
Acrylic and ink on 170x190cm unstretched canvas/linen blend
March 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
In this painting I imagined dry streams meandering through the desert, as if in search of something... one meets the salt of the lake, where its journey ends, the other's continues on to destination unknown.
From an antique land, part 1/4
Acrylic and ink on 170x190cm unstretched canvas/linen blend
From an antique land, part 1/4
Acrylic and ink on 170x190cm unstretched canvas/linen blend
Painting deep into the night while the world sleeps... rich red oxides, and other colours only partly mixed, laid on slowly with a large brush, wandering across the surface, in search of something...
March 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Painting deep into the night while the world sleeps... rich red oxides, and other colours only partly mixed, laid on slowly with a large brush, wandering across the surface, in search of something...
A rainy New Year's Eve, Katoomba, number 4 of 4.
I really wanted to maximise the feeling of soaking rain in this scene. The clock arch over the road is distinct but everything else is blurry details only hinted at as they fade into the mist.
Acrylic and ink on 11x14 inch cradled wood panel
I really wanted to maximise the feeling of soaking rain in this scene. The clock arch over the road is distinct but everything else is blurry details only hinted at as they fade into the mist.
Acrylic and ink on 11x14 inch cradled wood panel
March 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A rainy New Year's Eve, Katoomba, number 4 of 4.
I really wanted to maximise the feeling of soaking rain in this scene. The clock arch over the road is distinct but everything else is blurry details only hinted at as they fade into the mist.
Acrylic and ink on 11x14 inch cradled wood panel
I really wanted to maximise the feeling of soaking rain in this scene. The clock arch over the road is distinct but everything else is blurry details only hinted at as they fade into the mist.
Acrylic and ink on 11x14 inch cradled wood panel
Third painting in my rainy NYE at Katoomba series, acrylic/ink on 11x14 inch wood panel.
That day I happened across an old rarely-visited stone-walled lookout .. mist covered the valley below, swirling up the cliffs. Later saw a photo of a lyrebird sitting on the same wall..
That day I happened across an old rarely-visited stone-walled lookout .. mist covered the valley below, swirling up the cliffs. Later saw a photo of a lyrebird sitting on the same wall..
March 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Third painting in my rainy NYE at Katoomba series, acrylic/ink on 11x14 inch wood panel.
That day I happened across an old rarely-visited stone-walled lookout .. mist covered the valley below, swirling up the cliffs. Later saw a photo of a lyrebird sitting on the same wall..
That day I happened across an old rarely-visited stone-walled lookout .. mist covered the valley below, swirling up the cliffs. Later saw a photo of a lyrebird sitting on the same wall..
The second in my series of a rainy New Years eve in Katoomba, 2023 - acrylic & stuff on 11x14 inch wood panel.
I struggled for quite a while with this one, my colour sense seeming to desert me - the purple unlocked it, feels like a very Katoomba kind of colour to me.
I struggled for quite a while with this one, my colour sense seeming to desert me - the purple unlocked it, feels like a very Katoomba kind of colour to me.
March 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The second in my series of a rainy New Years eve in Katoomba, 2023 - acrylic & stuff on 11x14 inch wood panel.
I struggled for quite a while with this one, my colour sense seeming to desert me - the purple unlocked it, feels like a very Katoomba kind of colour to me.
I struggled for quite a while with this one, my colour sense seeming to desert me - the purple unlocked it, feels like a very Katoomba kind of colour to me.
I did this just the other day, for the first time in ages! Just lying there, feeling the world slowly rotate beneath me, listening to birdsong, a dog barking in the distance, feeling the breath of a cool breeze, feeling part of everything.
All good until a small black ant nibbled my arm 😲😅
All good until a small black ant nibbled my arm 😲😅
February 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I did this just the other day, for the first time in ages! Just lying there, feeling the world slowly rotate beneath me, listening to birdsong, a dog barking in the distance, feeling the breath of a cool breeze, feeling part of everything.
All good until a small black ant nibbled my arm 😲😅
All good until a small black ant nibbled my arm 😲😅
While I work on new paintings, here's an older one from 2023, painted after a few days walking in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. I wanted to capture the light cascading down, sparking off random leaves here and there, the deep mysterious shadows off trail too, and the heat of the day
February 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
While I work on new paintings, here's an older one from 2023, painted after a few days walking in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. I wanted to capture the light cascading down, sparking off random leaves here and there, the deep mysterious shadows off trail too, and the heat of the day
Taken on my phone while out walking this afternoon...
More paintings are coming, just going through a lull in creativity right now - it happens, I've learned to be patient 😊
More paintings are coming, just going through a lull in creativity right now - it happens, I've learned to be patient 😊
February 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Taken on my phone while out walking this afternoon...
More paintings are coming, just going through a lull in creativity right now - it happens, I've learned to be patient 😊
More paintings are coming, just going through a lull in creativity right now - it happens, I've learned to be patient 😊