Oil Painting
Delma White
Delma paints Australian flora, Still Life and rural art. Her Botanical works are always 'in situ' and larger than life. Still Life paintings are big, bold and full of colour. Working women feature in her rural landscapes. She wants to grab the viewers attention.
Artist Profile
Delma paints Australian flora, Still Life and rural art. Her Botanical works are always ‘in situ’ and larger than life. Still Life paintings are big, bold and full of colour. Working women feature in her rural landscapes. She wants to grab the viewers attention.
Delma has exhibited and won many awards throughout Western Australia, enjoying successful sales both locally and overseas. Regional businesses collect her works for their local representation. A career highlight was having her work accepted twice to be exhibited at The Melbourne Botanic Gardens Art of Illustration Exhibition. A national art magazine has published several articles on Delma’s work. She was invited as the feature artist to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Armadale Wildflower Society. The forest in the Perth hills is where Delma has her studio. WA flora is her inspiration and she regularly ‘goes bush’ for new subjects to paint. Her Still Life paintings are more than realism. She is a Maximalist artist. Maximalism is the best way for her portray her love for colour.
Artist Interview
What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?
I work mostly with oil paint on canvas, but nothing can really beat spontaneous pencil marks on paper. Oil paint gives me great colour and a build up of layers. Drawing gives me detail.
How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?
My ideas come mostly from being 'out bush'. I only paint what I have experienced for myself in the natural habitat. I draw the subject and plan the composition, transfer it to canvas and loosely paint in the details. Then I work in layers of oil paint. With Still Life I get to play in the studio.
Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?
I live near the forest in the Perth hills and have natural bush in my backyard, so I can just pop outside the studio door and find a wildflower subject. I have room to leave a Still Life set up and several uncompleted works around.
Career Highlights
- A career highlight was having her work accepted twice to be exhibited at The Melbourne Botanic Gardens Art of Illustration Exhibition. – She was invited as the feature artist to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Armadale Wildflower Society of Western Australia.
- Delma is always excited when her work is collected as it draws attention to Native wildflowers of Western Australia. This hopefully transfers to the caring for the natural environment.
