Perpetual Motion
by Kirsty McKenzie February 20, 2025
Landscape artist Jo Bertini has spent the best part of four decades working in remote, arid parts of Australia abroad.
Jo Bertini barely pauses as she walks through the lightly timbered landscape of Turraburra station northeast of Aramac in central western Queensland. Sketchbook in one hand and paintbrush in the other, Jo is a veteran at recording what she sees as she moves through the bush. As an expedition artist, she has decades of experience painting and walking across country way more inhospitable than this former cattle station. The land has recently been purchased and is being regenerated by Suzanne Thompson, matriarch of the traditional owners, the Iningai people, and Jo and her partner, Thomas Studer, have joined a group of visitors to learn about the plans Suzanne has for sharing traditional knowledge of this ancient landscape and its rock walls and caves covered in her ancestors’ paintings and engravings.
Mountain of the Watchful Heart
May 27th-July 31st, 2023
Blumenschein Museum
222 Ledoux St. Taos, New Mexico
Reading a Fathom of Sand 36x34” oil on Belgian linen
Between Worlds (Jonathan Warm Day Coming and the River Hawk) 48x60” oil on Belgian linen 2023
Deep In Land
20 October- 12 November, 2022
Arthouse Gallery
66 MCLACHLAN AVENUE, RUSHCUTTERS BAY
NSW 2011 AUSTRALIA
A Geography of Mythologies and Lost Little Histories oil on French polyester canvas
203 x 206 cm (framed)
Deep In Land
5 May- 14 July, 2022
GOCA
Galleries of Contemporary Art
Ent Center for the Arts
Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Breath of the Last Wild River
iridescent pigments & oil on French polyester canvas 203 x 203.5 cm (framed)
The lovey and gracious Ron Whitmore of Artisan Santa Fe (THE art supply store of New Mexico!) interviewed me yesterday on his fantastic live radio program “Art Fusion”. The program pairs a visual artist with a musician for interviews and live music! Hit the “Video” button below for full interview. Airs Saturday, Oct. 5 at 12 noon on Talk Radio KTCR AM 1260, FM 103.7
