Peace in the Japanese Garden

This original acrylic on canvas painting by Laurine Field celebrates the beauty and tranquility of the Japanese Garden in the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. These much-loved, stunning gardens are designed and maintained to promote both international and interpersonal peace. Visitors enjoy the water, rocks and wildlife that are a part of this rich cultural and cultivated landscape. The clipped hedges are a feature as is the pink flowering tree. Memories of family outings are embedded in the atmosphere of the image, as are understandings gained from the artist's master's thesis on the nature of gardens in contemporary society.

Painted on artist quality canvas using artist quality materials, the composition and brushwork are complex and layered. Paintings are carefully packaged using layers of bubble wrap and a sturdy box. Recycled materials are utilised when available.
Laurine paints images of bushland, botanic gardens, flowers and clouds. She has a Master of Creative Arts (Painting), works as an art teacher and has been painting for thirty years. Nature connection, colour, and lifeforce are key drivers in her painting practice. Paintings have an energising and peaceful atmosphere.
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Laurine Field has been painting for twenty-five years. Prior to this she was a paintress, decorating handmade pottery items. It was through this tradition that she found solace in the activity of painting. Field works predominantly in acrylics and oils on canvas, but also enjoys working in watercolours. Based in Brisbane, Field has a Master of Creative Arts and works part-time as a high school art teacher. She has had multiple solo shows in Brisbane and Cairns and participates regularly in group exhibitions. Hobbies include bushwalking, gardening and reading.

Field’s artwork is primarily about nature connection and the observation of beauty. Life-force, meditation, light and colour are key ideas in her work. Plants (waterlilies, cacti, orchids…), rocks and water surfaces are frequent subjects. Images often have visual complexity and layers of content as if the creation and viewing of the subject draws the viewer in. Most of her paintings take well over a hundred hours to create.

Field’s studio is a caravan which provides a sanctuary from the demands of the world. Subjects are generally from Mt Coot-tha forest park or Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. The garden has been an ongoing theme in her work for the last twenty years as it represents harmony between humans and the natural world. Field hopes that her paintings will bring peace and nature connection to the viewer.