Dorothy Braund, Bathers I
01 Marine Painting — Dorothy Braund, With Footnotes, #260
Bathers I, c. 1979
Watercolour and gouache on paper
39.5 x 50cm
Private collection
Dorothy Braund was born in Melbourne in 1926 and studied at the National Gallery School, and the George Bell School. Her travel studies in the 50s and 60s took her across Europe, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Persia, and Turkey.
Braund’s restrained figurative style has, at its core, the natural world, people and activity, observed with distinctive wit and humanity. It is important to Braund to ‘attain the ultimate in simplicity’, through the play of light.
Braund’s work is characterized by economy of means, rhythmic tension of line, close colour harmony, and subordination of the object, concentrating on form and design: the artist’s main vehicle of expression.
Braund has exhibited extensively in the eastern states and is represented in several public collections including National Gallery of Australia, Art Canberra, Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and such Regional Galleries as Bendigo, Castlemaine, Langwarrin, and Mornington.
Braund has been awarded Prizes in competitive exhibitions at Albury 1962, Colac 1964, Bendigo 1966 and Muswellbrook 1972. More on Dorothy Braund
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