How often do art and golf intersect? Too seldom, says Andrew Thomson, Australian Golf Digest columnist and son of five-time Open champion, Peter Thomson.
“I’ve always admired Robert Wade’s work, and also Graeme Baxter’s paintings. But for a few years I’ve been painting various abstract landscapes in oil of links courses, Australian courses, both city and country, and then imagining interesting holes and creating them on canvas,” Thomson says. “It struck me a while ago that in the landscape of a golf course, especially one close to the sea, there are an infinite variety of colours and contours. Yet I’ve not seen that captured using oil paints. So I decided it was time to stake my reputation and hold an exhibition.”
“The Art of Golf” exhibition will be held in the Thomson Room at the Sandy Links clubhouse in Cheltenham, Melbourne, also home to Golf Australia and the Australian PGA, on September 1 and 2 from 10am until 6pm. Twenty percent of the proceeds of any sales will go to the Golf Society of Australia for the purpose of maintaining and upgrading its historical collection.
