Jules Ombak / The World Behind the Work
WORLD
The anatomy of seeing.
I don't always know which fragments of a place will stay with me. Sometimes it's a wave, a texture, a colour, or a form that returns later in paint. I photograph what catches my eye. I paint what refuses to leave it."
Emotion into Form
Rage
RAGE
When feeling takes form.
Born from the collision of love, passion and fury.
What began as an eruption of colour gradually took shape through waves, layered paint, gold and fragments of a remembered place.
The painting didn't resolve the emotion. It gave it form
Source impressions
Stages of making
Surface / Detail
02 / After Australia
After Australia
Red rocks, blue skies & other distractions.
After my first trip to Australia, I found myself painting its red rocks, impossibly blue skies and wonderfully stubborn vegetation. Some paintings stayed close to the landscape. Others wandered into colour, pattern and ornament. A few experiments, a lot of red paint, and an Australian landscape that kept giving me ideas.
Place & Painting
Field archive / South Australia
The process
The Series
Ballardong Noongar Country,
Western Australia Year 2020 Medium Acrylic on canvas
Other Distractions
Wave Rock
Mixed medias
The Red Centre
100 × 120 cm · Oil on canvas
Title
Red Country
Ballardong Noongar Country
Year
2024
Medium
Oil on canvas
from surface to wave
The Blueprint
this painting began with colour and texture. Gold, sand, turquoise and deep blue were there before the image fully arrived.
As the work developed, the wave gradually took shape - first as movement, then as structure and finally as a complete painting.
This images show that shift.
THE WORLD DOESN’T STAY ON CANVAS
Sometimes it ends up on a sofa.
Earlier State
Revisited State
On a sofa
Australia’s red earth has followed me into more than one painting.
Apparently, it also followed me to work.
Years later, those familiar shades of rust, ochre and sun-baked stone resurfaced while I was selecting fabrics for Crocus.
Different medium. Same fascination with colour.
Collected
in the wild.
Some images remain photographs.
Others return years later in paintings.
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