Season Heise is taking Melbourne’s art world by storm and no wonder: her art is a revision of the known life – an emblem of a better one. Her paintings have a dreamlike quality, they reawaken suppressed ideals and explore new ways of seeing the world.
In Season Heise we have an artist who uses hard, precise, almost exaggerated detail to explore unpretentious themes such as doorways, windows and flowers and to raise them to a symbolic level. Her works are bathed in vivacious colour that dazzles and draws the viewer deeper and deeper.
Season’s compositions are also permeated with a delicate veil of nostalgia, and yet clean and lucidly arranged. Emptiness is filled with all sorts of fantasic things. The viewer has the impression of overwhelming minuteness. The range of colour is immense.
Season’s masterpieces are painted with astonishing vigour, led by secret, inner impulses. Everything is on the same scale whether important or unimportant. This is truly art by instinct.
Melbourne’s art buyers can only hope that this truly imaginative artist, now touched by success and fame, will retain her innocent eye, her fresh, original inspiration and soul to become one of Australia’s truly great artistic storytellers of our time.
W John Hackwell
The Postmaster’s Gallery
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