GROWING UP IN TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA, an island rich in environmental diversity and with little development, Richard Klekociuk always had a strong affinity with the landscape. The highland regions of Tasmania are especially precious to him in both memory and appearance, as well as the many coastal and rural parts of the island. At a young age, he loved drawing what he saw, especially through his bedroom window. His surroundings were important to him then and still are today.
He graduated from art school in 1971 as a keen abstract painter and sculptor, having developed a style that simplified what he saw in the land. Over his five-decades-long career – he supplemented his art with being an art teacher – his love of landscape has stayed with him to this day, having gone through many various interpretations. “There is so much to see, dismantle and reconstruct, more so now than ever as climate change is
