OutbackArt the paintings of Shane Gehlert

Jackalopes-roam

Join our Mail List?

Shane Gehlert  "Give me a home, where the Jackalopes roam...."   30 x 40 inches, acrylic on canvas

 

Oh give me a home,

Where the Jackalope roam

And the deer and the Armadillos play….

 

 

Ah yes, the highlight of my sojourn the Southwest, has to be the discovery of the rare and endangered Jackalope.

That elusive and feisty little critter, firmly burrowed into my imagination, to reveal himself in my temporal delusions.

Manifested into a tromp l'oeil diorama, witnessed by a naked reflective beauty of our own industrial machinations, to catch a fleeting glimpse of our own whimsical nature, before it quickly disappears into the sands of time……

 

Shane Gehlert

 

Copyright Shane Gehlert OutbackArt 2010 last updated July 2010

OutbackArt the works of Australian artist Shane Gehlert. Shane's works can be variously described as surrealism, pop surrealism, lowbrow art, fantastic surreal, fantasy art, metaphysical art, fantastic realism or visionary art! Shane is famous for his 'chrome Kangaroos ' and his latest additions of Saint Bilby. His other mechanical marsupials have become and instant hit, as too the recent 'Twitter bird' series, a parody on the social networking phenomenon of this era. The landscapes of Shane's surreal painting creations are inspired by the outback desert vistas of the far west of outback NSW, where Shane lived and worked in the Broken Hill region for some 12 years. The outback and desert landscapes of this area are famous in the art realms of Australia, synonymous with names such as Pro Hart, Jack Absalom and Hugh Schultz.