Roy Alfred Close - The Ocean

Roy Close 

Ocean  2022     

acrylic on canvas

The intention of this piece is to represent the flow of water. As red and yellow snakes, traversing through the forest and moving out into the vastness of the living ocean.

About Roy Close 

Roy is a Turrbal, Butchulla, Jirrbal and South Sea Islander artist living and working on Jagera land. At the age of 15, he began to paint, inspired by the abstract art and aboriginal art he was introduced to by a school Aboriginal Art program.

He says:

“Art give me something to do, my art relaxes me.

I like to tell stories through my paintings. I give to people through my artwork.”

Roy translates his ideas about the world around him into art, with the concept of connectedness driving his compositions.

The multicoloured segments that often make up Roy’s work represent many things. Sometimes, he says, ‘they are all suburbs of Brisbane, or all the Aboriginal tribes’ like a map. Sometimes they are the days of the year, all coming together in one place as one ongoing memory.

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