Romantic etchings

Ron McBurnie’s, “Romantic etchings: in the tradition of Samuel Palmer and the Ancients” continues to follow the artists interest in the theme of British Pastoral romanticism. The exhibition pays homage to the group of printmakers that aligned themselves round William Blake and Samuel Palmer and the great tradition of pastoral printmakers (such at Paul Drury, Robin Tanner and Graeme Sutherland) who followed in the early part of the 20th Century. The etchings in the exhibition pay homage to the British pastoral romantic tradition but acknowledge the different and distinct nature of the Australian landscape