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Drysdale was a studio painter who worked from sketches, photographs and his memory, making the outback the subject of prolonged investigation. He found painting a long and sometimes agonising process constructing landscape's from personal experience to produce evocations of the land rather than depictions of an immediate reality.
This timeline explores
his essence and techniques, his training, composition, style and influences
which allowed him to say something new, different and particularly Australian.
(You can read a text version of this timeline.)
