maggyoehlbeck
from coast to country
“A significant part of my life has been spent on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Although not given to matters astrological, as a Cancerian, or Moon Child, Iam a coastal fringe dweller by choice and compulsi on and have come to realise I live where I live because I am drawn to do so.
The push and pull of the tides and the presence of the moon in its many moods and phases affects my equilibrium providing an essential wellspring for inspiration, imagination and creative output.
My daily walk along Manly’s foreshore to Cabbage Tree Bay delivers an inexhaustible source of subject matter whether climatically, tidally, or socially.
I am equally interested in the ebb and flow of humanity as I am in the geography, natural history and cultural legacy of this precious and privileged region and its wider environs.
As a writer, artist and former actor, I have a keenly-developed sense of observation - part intuitive, part-learned. It is the fundamental basis of my painting. I am also fortunate in being a specialist writer about cruise ships great and small.
This allows me to spend a lot of time at sea in various destinations around the globe. Hence, I observe saltwater in its many forms: within eco systems, along shorelines, and oceans of the world. This provides me with enormous opportunities to observe amazing weather conditions- big seas, big skies, savage storms, bustling ports, and how the people of this planet cope with these environments in terms of survival, business or leisure.
In this series From Coast to Country, it is the natural beauty and lifestyles of the coastal fringe-dwellers of the Northern Beaches that endears me to the region most of all”
Manly artist and travel writer I feel a deep spiritual connection with the coastal fringe and hinterland of Sydney’s Northern Beaches. I love the big seas and big skies. I love its fractious moods that intrigues me, Cabbage Tree Bay, walk it is the as it joyfully embraces the sunlight, flattens defiantly against fierce The choreography of this ritual but nonetheless real as they are climatic phenomena. And its colourful inhabitants
Morning Dip, Delwood Beach Oil on canvas 60cmx60cm Maggy Oehlbeck
Early Morning Dip, Delwood Beach Oil on canvas 60cmx60cm Maggy Oehlbeck
Last Wave acrylic on canvas 76cm x122cm Maggy Oehlbeck
The Bower Break Oil on Canvas 92cmx122cm Maggy Oehlbeck
What Lies Beneath Oil on canvas Maggy Oehlbeck
Coastal Fringe Dune-Scape 1 North Curl Curl Oil on canvas 76cm sq Maggy Oehlbeck
Coastal Fringe Dune-Scape 2 North Curl Curl Oil on canvas 76cm sq Maggy Oehlbeck
Coastal Fringe Dune-Scape 3 North Curl Curl Oil on canvas 76cm sq Maggy Oehlbeck
The Bower Oil & acrylic on canvas 76cm x122cm Maggy Oehlbeck
On The Rocks Oil on Canvas 60cm x 60cm Maggy Oehlbeck
Oil on Canvas 60cm x 60cm Maggy Oehlbeck