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Quobba Station, WA Oil on Canvas Panel 30.5cm H x 40.6cm W A painting about place, the Indian Ocean crashes into the rock ledge. Late in the afternoon, the pink beginning of the sunset catches the wisp of the clouds. Roscoe Shelton 2021
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We talk about the timeless grandeur of the Arkaroola Landscape. The reflections in the waterholes make places like Arkaroola like nowhere else. Arkaroola is synonymous with ancient geological ages. It is the most rugged expression of the Australian Landscape. At once powerful and untamed with a natural beauty. According to legend, Arkaroo, the great Dreamtime serpent lived in the Gammon Ranges. He felt very thirsty, so he slithered down to the plains and drank Lake Frome dry. When he had finished, he went back to the Gammons, his body gouging out Arkaroola Creek. The waterholes represent the places that he stopped and rested.
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Sale!We talk about a timeless grandeur of the Arkaroola landscape. This scene taken from the lookout near the Pinnacles, a peaceful, contemplative hilltop vantage point looking over a typical Arkaroola landscape. The track winding back to the village gives the sense of journey with some interest in the distant rocky outcrops that remain from the weathered, folded landscape. I liked the sense of the hills and the colour of the dried earth coming through the sparse vegetation.
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We talk about a timeless grandeur of the Arkaroola landscape.
Bararranna Gorge Waterhole, One of the iconic vistas of the Arkaroola Landscape
Arkaroola is synonymous with ancient geological ages. It is the most rugged expression of the Australian Landscape. At once powerful, untamed but with a natural beauty.This scene projects a primeval emotion typical of the harsh and robust environment. The rock faces are sharp and steep with few trees successfully finding a crevasse to set their roots. Interest in the scene is enhanced with the foreground water, and we have the curiosity of what lies around the next bend as we make our way up to the Bararranna Waterhole. There are still many questions that the landscape asks of us. Look at the sharpness of the rock face embracing the cutting power of flood.
Contemplate just how high and powerful the flood must be when it does rain.
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We talk about a timeless grandeur of the Arkaroola landscape. This scene below the dominant Bararranna Hill holds a particular fascination. It is one of the major iconic scenes along Arkaroola Creek tracing the path of the great dreaming serpent, Arkaroo. This scene projects a primeval emotion typical of the harsh and robust environment. The rock faces are sharp and steep with few trees successfully finding a crevace to set their roots. Interest in the scene is enhanced with the foreground water, and we have the curiosity of what lies around the next bend as we make our way up to the Bararranna Waterhole. There are still many questions that the landscape asks of us.
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Sale!Oil Paining on canvas board 30.5 cm H x 40.6 cm W Cactus Beach, the iconic surf beach at the start of the Great Australian Bight Painted in the more traditional Australian Impressionist style Roscoe Shelton 2020
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Sale!Painting 2025 Coongie Lakes An eye catching impression of the sunset in outback Australia.
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Oil Painting Cooper Creek, Innamincka Cooper Creek in flood just above Innamincka, SA.
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Oil Painting Curdimurka, Oodnadatta Track Early evening on the Oodnadatta Track with the last of the sunlight reflecting up off the salt of Kati Thanda
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East Point Reserve, Darwin
A great Australian Landscape
The tropical sunsets over Darwin are spectacular. I want to capture for the balance between the sunset and the fading light on the water, and then there is the tropical cloud with the sun departing but leaving an illuminated skyline and upper cloud. There is something special about a “graceful” Darwin sunset at East Point Reserve.
I am always looking forward to a week or two in Darwin each year to catch up with friends and a bar-be-que with on the foreshore
East Point Reserve, Darwin 2021 Roscoe Shelton 30.5cm H x 40.6cm W Oil on canvas board -
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Elephant Rocks, near Denmark on the southern coast of Western Australia. Generations of battering from the Southern Ocean has created a unique set of rocks in the image of four or five elephants making their way to and from the raging surf.
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Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia Oil Painting on Canvas Board (Framed) 40.6cm H x 50.8 W Understanding the solitude of the fisherman Roscoe Shelton 2020
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Roscoe is a South Australian artist capturing his impression of special Australian landscapes. He has been fortunate to have spent much of his time on the Australian outback, admiring the landscape, geology, and colours. Roscoe specialises in taking you along for the journey through his paintings.
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