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VISUAL ANALYSIS – Fred Williams Gorge Landscape 1981 In 1979 Williams visited Pilbara and in the succeeding years created a series of oil paintings and gouaches based on the experience. Pilbara ‘tired and excited him profoundly so, natural painter that he was, he longed to paint it, to get it down in order to share his own excitements and sense of discovery.’ This series went on to be internationally acclaimed for the captured colour, beauty and spectacle of the Pilbara landscape in north-west Western Australia. In the Following essay I will be analysing Fred Williams’s oil painting Gorge Landscape 1981 – one of his final landscapes and part of The Pilbara Series. Gorge Landscape 1981 is a large, confronting oil on canvas landscape. Williams’s handling of the oil paint on the work ranges from thin layers to thick worked up areas. The majority of the surface area is built with up rich layers of colour applied in a chalky dry brushing way. The trees, leaves and shrubs in the painting are all formed on top of the brushy base, the texture makes these appear to advance from the painting creating a ‘floating’ feel that sets an energetic atmosphere. This feeling is perhaps the only sense of 3D in the work. This is as