Australian artist, Damien Kamholtz, spent the first few years of his life in the Northern Territory before moving to Queensland where he now lives in Toowoomba working as an art teacher and tutor. He is a ‘prolific painter with a strong interest and focus on art and its relationship to the landscape. Through travel around the country, he has discovered and sought to express the parallels between indigenous cultures in a traditional and contemporary sense. His art is an attempt to communicate to the heart and spirit, rather than our intellect – images comprising of subtle and suggestive combinations of nature’s organised and abstract shapes, entwined in universal and personal symbolism that incorporate suggested faces, figures and totemic animals’. [see also Alika Cooper]
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Zolton said | 29 October, 2006
pleasure. good to see, by the ratings you’ve received, that others are liking your work too.
Shawn said | 30 October, 2006
fantastic paintings. Visited the link to his other paintings at http://www.lastingimpressionsgallery.net and was really impressed. Very interested in other peoples thoughts/interpretations on damiens work. also wondering if he has any new work for sale?
Janice Jones said | 30 October, 2006
Damien – good to see your work being featured here.
Love the balancing chair image. Very edgy.
Janice
Kaye Cathro said | 30 October, 2006
Incredible young artist with a very creative and compassionate mind. His views of life are expressed through his art and the depth of his thinking is often very profound.
Sepake said | 30 October, 2006
It would be good to see some of the ausralian talent other in the UK. Or more australian artists promoted in the international arena. It´s obvious there is a great amount of talent like DK but we only get to see a portion of it.
Joel said | 31 October, 2006
Cool site and great paintings.
Jim said | 31 October, 2006
Love the paintings dude! Will have to see some more sometime.
Jim
Janet said | 31 October, 2006
love these images of the sweeping essences of children … it’s like they are versions of the same child; they have so many faces and moods and spirits and I like to think they are captured in Damien’s work
Fantastic site too!!!
Geoff said | 31 October, 2006
I am looking… and I am thinking… and I am feeling!
These are very interesting paintings and I am off to find some more of your work.
Carley Commens said | 31 October, 2006
I love this guys work. I went to the link too and the collection there reminds me of breezes, white wash and they feel like cream sepia. My favourite is C is for No.2, something about the stocking, the leg and seeing the state of suspended expressed there… love it.
Mitch said | 31 October, 2006
I actually like how those two images above, look really good side by side.
For instance on the left you have your white wash with tan brown figures and the picture on the right contrasts this with the beautiful blue figures, of course with the white wash for the background.
They all look like porclain dolls sucked onto the canvas.
That’s pretty cool.
brent said | 1 November, 2006
A wonderful intuition for use of the medium and composition…
rebecca said | 3 November, 2006
you are a wonderful person and a wonderful artist. i am always amazed at everything you create.
Maria said | 21 November, 2006
Damian’s work is intruiging as the images seem to be layered in such a way that you can not see exactly what they are doing. They seem to cross dimensions, from spirit world to reality, blending so one cannot be distinguished from the other. There is a type of playful innocence that is childlike yet there’s a strong, serious adult world present aswell. This child/adult dichotomy seems to also blend. It could be seen as quite provocative, as in the schoolgirl piece, it seems there is a cross over from innocence (the girls on one end of the chair )to provocation (the girl crossing her legs). Yet sexuality is also innocent. Does anyone else see this? Love to hear what other’s think.
Maria
melinda said | 28 February, 2009
Thank you for the time to show the world such wonderful work… you are an inspiration….I wish I had half the talent you have .. keep up the great work
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damien said | 28 October, 2006
cheers zolton, a really cool site, and a treat to see a couple of my paintings pop up.
stoked
d