Recent Paintings by Elizabeth Barsham

A solo exhibition of my paintings opens on 3 September, 2010, at Goulburn Street Gallery, 89-93 Goulburn St., West Hobart
Exhibition ends 18 September.
More information? Ring the gallery: (03) 6231 3200

PAINTINGS ON THE ROAD

Twenty paintings are currently on tour around Tasmania with Tasmanian Regional Arts.

Artists' workshops may be arranged in conjunction with exhibitions; check the itinerary

paintings on tour

Berlin Collection - Germany

Thanks to the generosity of an art collector in Berlin, fans in Germany can now see three major paintings and several prints, drawings and smaller works in their own capital city.

View selected items from the Berlin Collection on line.

Dali's Moustache

The inaugural exhibition of the Foreshore Gallery
ended 29 November, 2009, but you can still see the exhibition on line

Artwork by Elizabeth Barsham

Elizabeth Barsham (formerly painting as E.M. Christensen) is an award-winning artist working in Tasmania, Australia's island state.

A descendant of the first convict settlers and author of several books and articles about Tasmanian family history, she was the first Tasmanian to publish a book about a convict ancestor (Thomas Burbury, Pioneer of Tasmania by E.M. Christensen and W. Sinclair, Victoria, 1979).

Barsham does not dwell on lurid details of the colonial penal system but admires the determination and fortitude shown by pioneering men and women who endured terrible hardships in creating the townships, farms and industries enjoyed today. She is passionate about the need to explore and record what traces remain of their lives, while preserving both the built environment and the remaining forests and primaeval wilderness.

Her uniquely imaginative oil paintings are an emotional expression of her ancestral connection to the landscape and its people. Often based on old family photographs, they feature grim-faced men, women and children against a backdrop of rugged mountains, impenetrable forest and crumbling buildings in an unsettling but hauntingly beautiful mixture of nostalgia, gothic romanticism and humour.