Artists pair up for combined show

IMAGINATIVE collages and landscape lino prints are bringing colour and texture to the walls of the gallery at Accent Framing and Fine Art.

Visual artists of the Golden Plains Shire’s north, Marie Mason and Anne Langdon, are presenting a combined exhibition of their works during August.

Most of Langdon’s creations in the show are collages, however some are silk screen, mono, and lino prints, which she has become known for as a member of Goldfields Printmakers, alongside Mason.

“I quite like to do collage, because I find I’m more in control of where things go,” she said.

“I use a lot of my print work, tearing it up and recycling it, use found materials as well, and include painting. They are mixed media pieces.

“My work is a lot different to Marie’s, with her works landscape based, and mine more imaginative based, rather than on real things.”

Mason’s coloured reduction and black-and-white prints feature Lake Fyans, where “trees are like white statues” in the water, canola paddocks near Mount Buffalo, a sunset, ducks, and more.

The pair initially connected when Mason moved from Melbourne to Ross Creek four years ago. Langdon shared her Smythesdale print studio with Mason while she set up her own at home.

They have exhibited together previously, including at the Firestation Print Studio in Armadale, Melbourne.

“We had the same sort of artistic bent, and a love of making pictures,” Mason said.

“I’m drawn to printmaking, I have to keep on printing, and Anne understood that. I always have project that’s going on.

“Anne is a generous person, and we’ve developed a solid friendship.”

Mason encourages art-lovers to drop into the gallery at 421 Sturt Street to support the local creative scene.

“Any sales are very encouraging to keep artists going on, and making another picture,” she said.