Hans Heysen: Into the Light is the fourth book in a series featuring artists represented in the collection of Carrick Hill, Adelaide. Hans Heysen is one of Australia's greatest landscape painters and best-known artists. His work is collected in galleries and museums throughout the world.
Hans Heysen: Into the Light is a study of the artist's watercolours, an aspect of his oeuvre much loved by the general public, scholars and fellow artists. This book discusses the progress of his career through his watercolours and also explores his watercolour technique. It includes a short biography of the artist.
Jane Hylton is a freelance curator and art historian specialising in Australian art. Her numerous publications and exhibitions include most recently
Modern Australian Women: Paintings and prints: 1925 to 1945 (Art Gallery of South Australia) and two books in this series,
Ivor Hele: The productive artist and
William Dobell: Portraits in context, which accompanied exhibitions at Carrick Hill. She works from her Fleurieu Peninsula home at Clayton Bay on the lower Murray River.
John Neylon is an Adelaide-based art writer, curator, consultant and art museum educator. He has worked as art critic for the
Advertiser, is a long term and regular art reviewer for the
Adelaide Review, and has written numerous catalogue essays on South Australian art and artists. Recent books include
Aldo Iacobelli: I love painting (Wakefield Press, 2006) and
Robert Hannaford: Natural eye (Wakefield Press, 2007).
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