• 2012 Smaller Art

    Breaking Light 1-2 48cm x 36cm (each) Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    Bloom View 48cm x 36cm Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    Corrosive Point 48cm x 36cm Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    Emerald Light 1-2 48cm x 36cm (each) Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    Playing Trails 48cm x 36cm (each) Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    Canola 48cm x 36cm Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    Outlook 48cm x 36cm Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    Rubbed Pearl 48cm x 36cm Mixed Media on Board

  • 2012 Smaller Art

    The Reserve 48cm x 36cm Mixed Media on Board

2012 Smaller Art

2012

The remnants of his bush upbringing are subtly apparent in his large, expressive, emotionally powerful paintings. The outback theme is sometimes contrasted by a sense of urban grit and chaos to further veil his works in an element of mystique. Each painting is a significant piece of an on-going biographical account of de Masi’s life. Some from the immediate past and others travel further back in time to childhood encounters. Colour takes a leading role in the paintings. At times it is decadently slathered on in unabashed portions and in contrast washed over the surface as a thin stain like a water impression which remains almost seeing through to the bone of the raw canvas left in its natural state.