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The Sun Herald, September 27, 1998
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ROXANNE Minchin’s vibrant paintings of the NSW outback are turning up in all the right places.
But Ms Minchin has set her sights higher.
She wants to become Australia’s best-known woman artist and her goal is to have a solo exhibition in London.
“Then I’ll know I’ve really acheived recognition of my work.” she said.
Ms Minchin’s late husband Eric helped to establish Brken Hill as an international art centre, with artists Hugh Shultz, John Pickup, Jack Absalom and Pro Heart - a group he called Brushmen Of The Bush.
For years Ms Minchin won dozens of children’s competitions run by a Sydney newspaper. She sketched the bushland and rainforrest around Gosford, where she grew up, before moving to Broken Hill
“I was always a frustrated landscape artist but Eric showed me the basics, and through the years I’ve put together two opposite styles, my modern and Eric’s traditional,” she said.
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“The end result is something totally different. My colours are bright and vivid because that’s what I see.”
Ms Minchin, who has just returned from Provence, where she was commissioned to do a series of paintings for a French family, said Broken Hill had amazing light which could not be found anywhere else. And the countryside changed all the time.
She could be painting in a dry, red creek bed one day and the next day it could be full of clear blue water.
“The contrasts are fantastic and you can just paint day after day and never stop,” she said.
“You could sit in one spot for a year and it would always be different.”
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