Arresting and visually provocative.

Richly layered and sensuous canvases that suggest a life force contained within define the images created by Sydney artist Scott Petrie.

Petrie's canvases take the form of multiples and site specific commissions, such as those created for leading architects Burley Katon Halliday and the works created for the Renzo Piano building in Sydney . The artist builds up the images by layering waxes, glazes and oils into tactile and sensual surfaces.

Luscious, primary colours and their derivatives resonate, through Petrie's application. Reds, blues and burnt oranges, dance for the viewer in rhythmic cross hatches of paint.

The physicality of an interior, its size, form and curve all inform the images produced by Petrie, whose canvases sit perfectly within the space for which they were intended.

Energy and representations of emotion are primary intentions of the artist. Petrie wishes for the viewer to interpret his work on a personal level - these are not didactic works rather, they are evocative depiction's of energy and sensuality.