{"id":19055,"date":"2016-06-26T08:17:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T08:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=19055"},"modified":"2016-06-26T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T08:17:17","slug":"robyn-collier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/06\/26\/robyn-collier\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in Art Part 26: Robyn Collier"},"content":{"rendered":"
Landslides in Art: Robyn Collier<\/h5>\n

This, the 26th edition of Landslides in Art<\/a>, features a painting by the Australian artist Robyn Collier<\/a>.\u00a0 Robyn’s bio on her excellent webpage describes her as follows:<\/p>\n

Robyn is well-known as a prominent Australian wilderness landscape and seascape painter of contemporary realism who started painting in the early 70\u2019s \u2013 when traditional art was really taking off and Sydney Galleries were frequent and successful. Most of what she \u00a0has learned has been learned from the observation of nature and constant hard work \u2013\u00a0being a\u00a0self realised artist.\u00a0Having spent many years painting en plein-air she then graduated to studio work and subjects requiring \u00a0more time and reference while still retaining the Alla-Prima technique. (Direct painting, wet-in-wet).<\/p>\n

Robyn\u00a0has bush walked extensively over her \u00a040 year career as a visual artist and still walks several times a week.\u00a0Her real love\u00a0is traveling to remote areas \u2013\u00a0\u00a0wilderness subjects and areas of difficult access\u00a0being her special niche.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The piece of work I am featuring here is called “The Landslide<\/a>“, described by Robyn as follows:<\/p>\n

A landscape I was very happy with\u00a0\u2013\u00a0painted after a long, but beautiful walk to the Ruined Castle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Landslide<\/a> by Robyn Collier<\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

The Ruined Castle<\/a> is in the Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, western Australia.\u00a0 This image appears to show the same site:<\/p>\n

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Landslides in Art – Robyn Collier. Image from NSW Parks and Wildlife Service<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

The painting beautifully captures both the majesty of the site and the dynamic nature of the landslide itself.\u00a0 The slide is a large rockfall that is reasonably fresh (but it is very hard to date in an environment with very slow process rates), with an enormous forested rockfall deposit at the toe (which must have formed over many events).<\/p>\n

The location of The Landslide<\/h5>\n

I think this is the site on Google Earth (but unfortunately the vertical imagery creates many distortions).\u00a0 The site is at (-33.732, 150.295):<\/p>\n

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The site of The Landslide by Robyn Collier<\/a>, via Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this truly beautiful painting of a landslide has been sold.\u00a0 I envy the owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robyn Collier, an artist from New South Wales in Australia, has painted The Landslide, a beautiful image of a rockfall scar in the Blue Mountains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[502,176,469,56],"class_list":["post-19055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-australia","tag-featured","tag-rockfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}