Digby de Bruin

bio

Studied Art at Curtin University in Western Australia and has worked extensively in senior roles in art education at a state and national level and in an international arena in visual arts education. From 2008 to 2015 he was Head of the Art School at Central Institute of Technology in Western Australia. 

 

Worked as a practicing visual artist since the 70s and has shown work in a number of solo exhibitions in Perth and in numerous group exhibitions. His work is represented in public and private collections in Western Australia, Australia and internationally. The focus of his work has been the landscape.

 

Digby's work is represented at Gunyulgup Gallery in Yallingup, Western Australia and Gallows Gallery in Mosman Park.

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"My work begins with extensive drawing both en plein air and in the studio.  Drawing studies made in the field are a direct response to the landscape. 

While my work is grounded in the figurative tradition of landscape painting, it shifts from an engagement with the real world, to a visual distillation - a synthesis of references brought back from the field and my experiences in the landscape."