Glenys de Lange

The heat haze of life in the sub-tropical environs of Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast

form the subject matter of Glenys de Lange paintings.

New work by Glenys arrives regularly at the gallery. Work is always available from the stockroom.

Glenys’ original idiosyncratic style is much loved by gallery visitors and prized by collectors. She paints with a directness and honesty that has a wide appeal. The thick luscious canvases exude the rich textures of life and the vibrant colour and shimmer of the humid sub-tropics.

Her subject matter is literally the houses, streets, shops and parks of the Brisbane suburbs and the farms of the Sunshine Coast. The crops, trees and houses are painted realistically with a strong design element. Glenys has been influenced in these works by the icons of Turkey and Bulgaria. She is widely travelled and has looked at the art of every continent but always returns to her roots in South-east Queensland and the suburban landscape she knows so well.

“South-east Queensland hasn’t really been well represented through art” she says and she presents us with her vision deeply rooted in place. She sees her work as a shared conversation with her viewers.

Glenys sits on street corners and draws the houses and streets around her from life without relying on photographs. This gives her work her directness and honesty rarely seen. Each painting is then meticulously planned and she imposes her own individual perspective and strong sense of design on the subject. Like Chagall some aspects of the suburban landscape are presented upside down to fit in with her individual aesthetic and to express all she wishes to say about her subject. Glenys also has a penchant for bridges and all those spanning the Brisbane River have been immortalized in paint.

Glenys studied painting, printmaking and sculpture at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. There is always work by Glenys in the stockroom for viewing or on the gallery website.