Michael Pospischil paints from the heart. His painterly images of the landscape, people and their environment, are testament to this man's talents. He has led a prolific life as an artist and has won numerous awards. These include being a finalist the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 2004 & 1998, and winnner of the Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape 2004.

I am a regional Queensland artist working largely in landscape and portraiture, committed to the joys of charcoal and oil paint. My work is grounded in the immediacy and speed of plein air drawing and the chromatic

interplay of multiple layers of transparent oil paint. I try to work with a neutrality and craft that allows the emotion of a scene to be expressed directly without the distraction of intellect. The interplay of natural chaos with human patterning is often what attracts my gaze and informs my compositions.