I’m excited to be exhibiting at Gallery Jones in Ripponlea, Melbourne, with seven paintings selected for the Wet-Areas group show running 17 February to 23 March 2024.
 
Gallery Jones Art and Frame House is located at 67 Glen Eira Road, Ripponlea Vic Australia.
Email info@galleryjones.com.au or tel. +61 488 211 614.
 

Steve Salo, ‘Flow, Aireys Inlet’, acrylic on Belgian linen, 46 x 48 cm

 
I have five new paintings in Primordial Landscapes, a group exhibition showing impressions and interpretations of the landscapes of the Southern Highlands. The exhibition runs 16 February to 3 March 2024 at Whitewall Art Projects, 10 Jellore Street, Berrima, NSW.
Email gallery@whitewallartprojects.com.au or tel. +61 420 718 775
Whitewall Art Projects
 

Detail from Steve Salo, ‘Cows on the Hill’, oil on board, framed in oak, 23 x 28 cm

 
‘Self-portrait in Ukrainian Shirt’ has been selected for the Salon des Refusés, the alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection. It’s an honour to have my painting hanging with the works of so many artists I’ve long admired. This is my third time in the Salon.
 
Artist statement: Often words can’t quite capture a feeling observed. In this self-portrait I’m thinking about the war in Ukraine and reflecting on my Ukrainian heritage and how my grandfather Dido left an indelible mark on how I approach painting. He taught me the importance of doing your craft with love, full effort and attention, and as a life journey. Choosing to paint this self-portrait in egg tempera mirrors the patience and passion of ‘vyshyvanka’ traditional embroidered Ukrainian shirts.
 
The Salon des Refusés 2023 exhibition will be held at the National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, 2 Watson Rd, Millers Point on Observatory Hill, The Rocks in Sydney, from 6 May to 23 July 2023.
 
The Salon des Refusés exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery has established an excellent reputation that rivals the selections of the ‘official’ exhibition with works which examine contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and responses to the landscape. The Salon takes its name from the renegade French Impressionists of the 1860s who held a breakaway exhibition from the French Academy.
 

 
I was honoured to have writer and painter Johan Vlok Louw select one of my paintings for the cover of his new book Sons of Mud. Published by Penguin Random House South Africa, Sons of Mud by Johan Vlok Louw was released in April 2023. I can’t wait to receive my copy and read what sounds like an amazing book.
 
The artwork ‘Passerby Rutland Street’ is from the Passerby series (which I still occasionally get inspired to add to). The original painting sold to a Melbourne collector. Fine art prints of exceptional quality are available from Bells Fine Art.
 

Cover artwork: Steve Salo, ‘Passerby Rutland Street’, oil on aluminium, 37 x 31 cm

 
Several new landscape paintings have arrived at Grainger Gallery in Canberra. View the selection.
 
Building 3.3, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick ACT
Email: art@graingergallery.com.au
Tel. +61 404 769 843
 

Steve Salo, ‘Trimbles Creek’, oil on canvas, 42 x 27 cm (46 x 31 cm framed in light oak)
Steve Salo, ‘Track to Sunnymead Beach’, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm (43 x 43 cm framed in light oak) SOLD

 
The Autumn Group Exhibit at Whitewall Art Projects opens 11 March.
10 Jellore Street, Berrima NSW 2577 Australia
Email gallery@whitewallartprojects.com.au or tel. +61 420 718 775
 

Steve Salo paintings in the Autumn Group Exhibit. View here

 
I’ve sent six new paintings up to Whitewall Art Projects for the Autumn Group Exhibit, including this one of Hanging Rock in Woodend, central Victoria. It’s an area I love visiting and is well known as the setting for Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock and the Peter Weir film of the book.
 
I also have a few large works still available from Whitewall.
 
The gallery is located at 10 Jellore Street, Berrima NSW 2577 Australia.
Email gallery@whitewallartprojects.com.au or tel. +61 420 718 775
Steve Salo paintings at Whitewall Art Projects
 

Steve Salo, ‘View to Hanging Rock’, oil on board 30 x 35 cm (33 x 38 cm framed in light oak)
Steve Salo, ‘Cascade Falls’, oil on Belgian linen, 121 x 90.5 cm (125 x 94.5 cm framed in mocha stain)

 
I was so happy to read this feedback about the fine art print of my still life painting ‘Glass of Strawberries’.
To Bells Fine Art:
“The print looks marvellous, I am so happy. The colours are so deeply full of pigments and the print feels like a kind of velvet. It looks really valuable, please can you give me the information how this kind of printing is called. The packing was perfect, Mr. Salo arrived without any damage. (Nearly 16.000km distance…) Thanks a lot for your friendly support and contact.”
Bells Fine Art: “We are thrilled that you love your print. Our method of printing is Giclee and uses pigment inks with the largest colour gamut available on the market. We are an internationally certified Hahnemuhle Studio and we have been inducted into their Excellence program with a recent Gold certification. And as you know we only use the best Hahnemuhle papers from the oldest paper mill in the world (1584), in Germany.”
 
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