Close and Personal, by Ariel Rowan, Charcoal, Ink, and Chalk on Paper, 42 x 30cm
Ariel Rowan — exhibition title: 'Lived Eclectience'
Ariel Rowan’s exhibition Lived Eclectience — a term combining Lived Experience and Eclecticism — draws together works from a 20-year (on and off) creative practice. Based in the Northern Rivers, Ariel is a father of three and an artist whose life experience deeply informs his work.
The exhibition includes intimate, deeply personal paintings alongside vibrant still lifes and landscapes of the rivers surrounding Lismore, created in response to lived experiences of the floods. Ariel’s recent studies in Psychology and Creative Practice have further informed his approach, allowing him to integrate reflection, theory, and lived reality into his visual language. Embracing Eclecticism has unlocked a sense of freedom in his practice — a permission to paint “everything.”
Betwixt by Ariel Rowan, acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 cm
The Way by Ariel Rowan, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 cm
From The Bridge by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on Canvas, 92 x123cm
Mu by Ariel Rowan, acrylic on canvas, 41 x 41 cm
The Beauty of Melancholy by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 50cm
By An Other Name, by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on canvas, 35 x 28cm
Breakthrough by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on Canvas, 72x51cm
Creastruction by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on Canvas, 122x61cm
Poverty by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on Canvas, 100x102cm
See? by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on Canvas, 36x36cm
Paint Through It by Ariel Rowan, Acrylic on Canvas, 100x76cm
The Cycles of Wood by Ariel Rowan, Charcoal and Chalk, 37 x75 cm