Acrylic on Canvas
58cm (H) x 128cm (W) Framed
The artist draws inspiration from traditional Eastern landscape paintings, where scenes gradually unfold to reveal a layered narrative. The composition peels vertically, guiding the observer through an unfolding story. Figures engage in everyday rituals—gathering, conversing, resting and embracing - with the backdrop of winding rivers, ochre hills, and earthen architecture.
Single stroke textured colour and rhythmic forms, the painting invites a slow gaze, reflection on community, continuity, and connection to the land. Trees with white trunks repeat like visual punctuation marks, linking the scenes and evoking the passage of time through seasons or generations.
The Gathering is a tapestry of experiences that speak to the intimacy of communal living. It’s both rooted in tradition and abstracted from it, blending memory, place, and imagination.
The Gathering - Georgi Parsons-Birch
29 yr old Artist Yarra Valley born.
My work is unadulterated choices; every brushstroke with the lightness of intuition.
Inspired by traditional Eastern scrolls I grew up being enamoured by, my compositions unfold gradually, revealing layered narratives shaped by memory, place, and imagination. I often return to the image of the white tree — part bonsai, part Australian eucalypts — as a symbol of connection and personal mythology.
Colours bold, contrasts and quiet harmonies expressing emotional tension. Figures move through these landscapes in quiet choreography — ambiguous by design. I choose not to paint faces so that emotion is evoked through gesture, posture, and placement. This ambiguity invites the viewer to project, to pause, and to feel rather than impose.
I seek that my works reflect a transparent self — one that does not explain or decorate, but simply is. They speak to belonging: to land, to community, and to our own inner landscape.