Clive Douglas

Australian landscapes in oil

Light, laid down in layers.

Clive Douglas builds each painting from thin, translucent layers of oil, colour over colour, until the light seems to come from inside the canvas.

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Painted across Australia

A sense of place.

Gunnamatta · Bushrangers Bay · Point Lonsdale · Whittlesea · the Strzelecki Ranges · the High Country · the Snowy River · the Hartz Mountains · the Tarkine coast · the Blue Mountains · Pittwater · outback South Australia · the Northern Territory

The large works.

Clive’s largest paintings, each framed in Australian hardwood.

In their words.

What it is like to live with one of Clive’s paintings, from the people who chose them.

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Three of Clive’s paintings on a white wall, Gippsland Hills in Summer in the centre and Haze over Tasmania on the right
Gippsland Hills in Summer, centre, and Haze over Tasmania, right, on the gallery wall.

All the paintings.

Clive Douglas at home with his dog, beneath one of his desert paintings
Clive at home.

The artist

An architect’s eye.

Clive Douglas was born in Auckland and came to Melbourne in 1975 to study Interior Design and Architecture at RMIT. For thirty years he ran his own architecture practice on the Mornington Peninsula, and since 2020 he has painted full time.

“A window to look through.” Clive’s phrase for the white board around his small works, and for what he wants every painting to be: a sense of place, more than a record of a view.

Recognition

Six first prizes, four of them in a single year.

  1. 1985St Bedes Art ShowFirst prize
  2. 1987Shepparton Art ShowFirst prize
  3. 1989Bendigo Art ShowFirst prize
  4. 1989Keilor Art ShowFirst prize
  5. 1989Victorian Artists SocietyFirst prize
  6. 1989Flinders Art ShowFirst prize

Exhibited

Recently

  • Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick
  • Lander-Sea, Dromana
  • Lon Resort, Point Lonsdale
  • Vida Gallery, Whittlesea

In the 1980s and 1990s

  • Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza
  • Elgin Gallery, Carlton
  • Noels Gallery, Main Ridge
  • Without Pier Gallery, Sandringham
  • Falkner Gallery, Castlemaine

Trained

  • RMITInterior Design and Architecture, with watercolour, graphics and life drawing
  • 1988–89Oil painting under Maxwell Wilks at the Victorian Artists Society

An architect, then a painter

  • 1975Arrives in Melbourne from Auckland
  • 1989–2020His own architecture practice on the Mornington Peninsula
  • 2020Paints full time, from his studio in Dromana

By appointment

See them in person.

The paintings are in Clive’s studio in Dromana, on the Mornington Peninsula. Ask about any painting, or arrange a visit.

Phone
0414 704 665
Instagram
@clivedouglasart