Portrait Artist & Landscape Painter: David Naseby

David Naseby - Australian Landscape Artist & Portrait Painter

A multiple Archibald Prize finalist, Naseby is recognised as one of Australia’s leading landscape artists and portrait painters.

David Naseby is known for his sensitive portraits of subjects such as poet Les Murray, former PM John Gorton, writer Bob Ellis, golfer Greg Norman, and his personal close friend, cartoonist Bill Leak.

Awarded the 2002 Arthur Boyd Artist-in-Residence at Bundanon for his landscape paintings, Naseby has exhibited extensively: National Portrait Gallery Canberra, Group and Solo Exhibitions, and numerous public and private collections throughout Australia, UK and USA, including Rupert Murdoch and Macquarie Bank.

Just as Les Murray eloquently acknowledges the discordance between man and the natural world nature in his poem The Meaning of Existence, Naseby’s landscape paintings depict the complex push and pull of man’s interaction with the land.

"As with my portraits, I see myself as a detective, searching for the real character below the surface of the landscape" says Naseby. "I call myself an abstract reflectionist because my paintings always retain some essence of their original form, even when they are pushed to virtual abstraction."

The inspirations and oppositions discernible in Naseby’s work - an enduring love of the land, the tensions between the natural and the man-made, the determination to retain independent artistic expression - come together in a fusion of eloquent and powerful works.

"Defiant and stubborn he calls this landscape – terms equally applicable to him."
Julian Beaumont , Chairman of the Macquarie Bank Art Collection

For more information please contact David Naseby. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Telephone 0400 811 747.

A copy of David's resume can be accessed here, or download David's Artist Statement here.