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Elizabeth Barsham is an award-winning artist working in Tasmania, Australia's island state.

Book cover - The Caravan Moves On; © Elizabeth Barsham

Thirty years ago Tasmania's mistress of the strange held her first solo exhibition. To celebrate, she has produced a book of paintings spanning her entire career.

This brand new hard-cover book, The Caravan Moves On contains a selection of one hundred photographs of Elizabeth Barsham's stunningly beautiful paintings, with descriptive comments by the artist.

Mail order: Price $54.95 plus $15.00 postage and handling to anywhere within Australia.

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Interviews with the Artist

Hannah Herrmann-Payn's short documentary

Tasmanian Gothic on ABC Open

with Greg Nolan

youtube video

with The Green Widow

Necromancy Gothic Radio

Plastic Apocalypse: A stroll around my latest painting

music: "Solveig's Dance" performed on the theatre organ by Midj Jones

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A baker's dozen of dark and timeless landscape paintings, as enigmatic as ever. Remnants of a forgotten past or disturbing premonitions of a dystopian future? Or something else altogether?

McCrae's Hill oil on canvas 91 cm x 76 cm

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You can see more of Elizabeth's work at Nolan Gallery and Nolan School of Art, adjacent to the historic Long Gallery on the first floor of 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart.
Gallery hours: Mon - Fri 10 am - 6 pm; Sat 10 am - 4 pm; Sun 12 pm - 4 pm

Song of the Mill, 58 cm x 41 cm acrylic on paper, was my contribution to Metamorphosis, an international exhibition at the annual Ripattoni Art Festival in Italy.

More information: Gotico Visonaria blog

After the Mine - oil painting by Elizabeth Barsham

After the Mine, oil on canvas, 91 cm x 91 cm, was a finalist in the 2015 Glover Prize, Australia's richest prize for landscape painting.

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Interviews with the Artist

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