Raymond Dean 

A Year In Eastern Europe 2006/7

Contrasting environments of Tasmania and the Czech Republic

While on an 18 month drawing expedition through Asia and Europe from May 06 to November 07, I spent 10 months working on a series of works on paper while based in the East Bohemian city of Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic. These studio-based works were developed from selected plein air drawings that I had done throughout the Czech Republic and other parts of Europe

Working in East Bohemia gave me an opportunity to draw from a range of pastoral and urban landscape environments and subjects which contrast with those of my earlier Tasmanian rugged wilderness based work. These will inspire new directions and visual language in my ongoing art practice.

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