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Green Bay Green Bay Green Bay Green Bay ‘Looking East’ Ron Langman 2018 ‘Looking East’ Ron Langman 2018 An essay by Dr. Kitty Magee with creative contributions by Ron Langman and Sonya Hender. AnGreen essay Bayby Dr. Exhibition Kitty Magee 2018 atwith the creative Strand Gallery contributions in Pt. Elliot, by Ron South Langman Australia and Sonya Hender. Green Bay Exhibition 2018 at the Strand Gallery in Pt. Elliot, South Australia Green Bay has been a special place for myself and my husband, Ron Langman and we wanted to celebrate this beautiful spot on the Fleurieu Peninsula in an exhibition at the Strand Gallery. The concept started with historical research about artists, photographers and family experiences. We soon realised that Green Bay continues to inspire artists and we are proud to present new work by Christobel Kelly. The exhibition has been a very much an ‘in house’ affair with photographs, paintings, prints and textiles by our friends closely associated with the Strand Gallery. We have especially appreciated the support and enthusiasm of Halinka Harrison. We think that we have only scratched the surface and that in the coming years, we will continue to build on our research and continue to provide opportunities for artists and curators to respond to the Pt. Elliot seascape. For this essay, Kitty Magee has gathered an extensive • Photographer, Green Bay 1910 range of material and her eloquent writing expresses the • Positive (lantern slide); 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm emotional and creative connections that many of us have • Original held at the State Library of South Australia with Green Bay. Sonya Hender 2018 Green Bay has been seducing artists since settlement. Light recorded the sites of colonisation, using Somewhere out there, scattered around our world, topographical detail and visual information to assist in are thousands of paintings, sketches and photographs decision making about where to settle, where to fish of this small and modest bay in Port Elliot. Some are and what to build… A practical and necessary kind of by professional artists, housed in public and private image making. collections. But many are by amateurs, hidden in sketchbooks and journals, tucked away in drawers Later artists were lured by yearnings less easily and boxes. The urge to secrete art materials into a defined. Hans Heysen (1877-1968) painted breakers backpack on a visit to Green Bay is persuasive and crashing over ‘Chiton Rocks’, very near Port Elliot.2 seductive... What is it about this tiny cove that makes Heysen was a physically vigorous man who ‘welcomed it one of the most painted seascapes in South long hard days in the field’.3 His place was outdoors, Australia? in the full force of nature, ranging between the intense heat of the desert sun to the pounding winds For thousands of years the natural landscape of the of the Port Elliot coast. Can you picture him, on his Fleurieu Peninsula inspired the Ngarrindjeri in their folding stool, battling to steady his watercolour blocks traditions of weaving and carving. Traditions that on the beach just west of Green Bay? This ‘small, celebrated and reinforced millennia of spiritual and thin, unostentatious man’ peering through his horn- practical connections to the sea and land. rimmed spectacles at the rips and rocks, just as the surfers do today, assessing the light as well as the Much later, William Light (1786-1839), the great break of the waves.4 Later, he worked up his paintings surveyor and designer of Adelaide, painted Encounter in oils back in his studio at the Cedars.5 Heysen had a Bay and Cape Rosetta in 1837, not for their intrinsic ‘pantheistic reverence for Nature… fascinated by the beauty, but as the location of the South Australia effects of light on land and sky, and on the apparent Company’s fishing station.1 weight or weightlessness of natural objects under changing conditions of light, shadow, mist or sunshine’.6 Victor Harbor and Encounter Bay were among his She was attracted to the flora of the coast, giving the favourite painting locations. In 1925 he sat on the rocks a bodily softness, and transmuting the distant grass of The Bluff at Rosetta Head painting Petrel Cove waters of Green Bay to a gentle play of light and in watercolour and wrote ‘...You would love the bright blues. Smith (1904-1994) took a more muscular grandeur of this coastline, could you but see it, with approach, painting from the sands of the bay itself, something barren and primitive in the contour of the with great daubs of intense, flowing watercolour, land’.7 For Heysen it was all about the power of wielded like oil paint, hardly a drop of water on the nature and the play of light across the landscape. brush. Smith’s brushstrokes were dynamic and vigorous. Tuck’s were gentle and considered. Painting To this day, Green Bay is a tiny snapshot that together, one above and one within the bay, they encapsulates all the elements of this stretch of coast: responded so differently to their environs. Smith’s bay calm, storm, revolving colours, changing light, rips, was passionate and dangerous. Tuck’s was a softer, rocks, sanctuary and danger. safer place. Odd, to me, as I always experience the reverse on my visits: the bluster and tumble of the Heysen may be the most famous artist to have coastal path against the protection of the bay. Both painted in the area, but many others have been artists broke through the constraints of conservatism unable to resist the magnetic pull of Green Bay over in Australian art. Tuck’s influence as a teacher and a the years. Ruth Tuck and her husband Mervyn Smith leader in the fight for the acceptance of modernism in painted Green Bay more than once, each in their Australian art was profound9, whilst Smith’s 1954 distinct, but mutually influential styles. They painting of Green Bay was a finalist for the Wynne responded to the extraordinary blues and greens of Prize. The spontaneous power of Smith’s paintings is the sea in watercolour, but each expressing their nowhere more evident than in Coastal Scene, Green visions so differently. Tuck (1914-2008) produced Bay.10 bright watercolours of the bay below, glimpsed from the coastal path, through the rocks and foliage.8 Tuck was greatly influenced by Dorrit Black, another Black was an enthusiastic motorist, tootling along the frequenter of the Fleurieu Peninsula and Green Bay. coast from one painting to another. However, for This ‘plump, dignified, black haired and well-groomed’ almost a century, 1884 to 1984, Adelaide artists woman was something of a mother figure to younger travelled to Port Elliot by train. Many stayed for artists.11 Black travelled widely, studying in Sydney, months, not days, during the drowsy, hot days of London and Paris. However, it was the coast around summer. Frequent visitors included Jeffrey Smart, Port Elliot and the Fleurieu that captivated her again William Donnithorne, W.E. Drewett, Rose Lowcay, and again; a landscape that was ‘a source of beauty John Giles, Richard Hayley Lever, and Emily Wilson. and of spiritual power’ for her entire life.12 Some, like Lowcay, eventually moved there to live. In the hills and coasts of the Fleurieu, Black observed Many holidaying artists paint more at Port Elliot than sensuous female forms, rendered eloquently through at home. The natural beauty and the light of Port the lens of her modernism. One of Black’s most Elliot is captivating. But also, it is a holiday town with successful and dramatic paintings is Rocks and waves, a feeling of freedom and separateness, looking-glass Green Bay, Port Elliot (c1949).13 She responds moments outside the rest of life. On a holiday, the emotionally to the bay, becoming spiritually absorbed world seems different, looks different, away from into the rocky amphitheatre and its churning normal routines. We see more and reflect more. contents. It is a dark painting, responding (perhaps) to Holiday friendships and romances blossom. And the danger of the bay. I think of the stories of people where there are artists… there are often art washed from the rocks on calm days, by unexpected, communities. Which also means conversation, rogue waves that roar into the bay, fresh from debate, parties and assignations... It’s not all just Antarctica, even as the surrounding waters are beaches and glowing sunlight. peaceful and quiet. Black expresses the unpredictability of deep, channelled waters moving deceptively and unexpectedly. James Ashton (1859-1935) holidayed frequently in Ashton painted Green Bay many times; most Port Elliot. More than once the Adelaide press joked successfully on a summer holiday in 1893, in a work that ‘A clerk would stand aghast if it were suggested that was praised as his best painting ever. The work that he should take his ledgers on his vacation or a was described in the papers: mechanic his tools but that is Mr. Ashton's idea of a sojourn “off duty”’.14 In the foreground, which is very cleverly treated, we have Green Bay, a small inlet between the Ashton was a ‘rubicund tubby figure with silver hair rocks. The sand, the shingle, and the lazy-looking and waxed moustache, who usually wore a flower in summer breakers are admirably done. On either his lapel’.15 He started painting between 6am and 7am hand are bold pieces of rock splendidly painted every day and worked until dusk, becoming known as and looking between their shoulders you see the one of the most indefatigable and industrious blue ocean, with The Bluff and a couple of small Adelaide artists.16 On holiday, Ashton worked twice as islands in the distance.
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