Kenneth Jack is considered one of Australia’s finest watercolourists, earning an MBE and admission to the Royal Watercolour Society in London, a rare achievement for an Australian painter. That said, Jack worked across almost all mediums, employed most often to explore an almost forgotten outback life – old mines, deserted towns and decaying farm buildings.

This original watercolour depicts the South Australian lake, Lake Hart. Jack paints the water’s surface like a frosted mirror. The debris of fallen structures floats at its edges and a boulevard, submerged beneath the lake’s surface, winds out towards the horizon line. There is great beauty and great melancholy here, lost dreams tempered by the sublimity of nature.

Jack is a renowned artist nationally and internationally, with works in collections including the Royal Collection at Windsor, Victoria and Albert museum, National Gallery of Australia and the Australian War Memorial. For lovers of watercolours or quiet landscapes, ‘Lake Hart No. 3’ is a moving discovery.

Its companion work, ‘Lake Hart’, was the 1972 winner of the Wynne Prize’s Trustees’ Watercolour Prize.

Kenneth JACK (1924 - 2006)
'Lake Hart No. 3' 1972
watercolour on paper
Image Size: 67 x 100 cm
Dimensions: 85 x 118 x 4 cm (framed)
Signed: Signed and dated lower right: Kenneth Jack 1972. Inscribed with title, artist name and address verso: LAKE HART (NO 3) KENNETH JACK 22 FINCH ST E. MALVERN, 3145. Companion work to the winner of the Wynne Prizes Trustees Watercolour Prize 1972 (Lake Hart).

Comes with Letter of Provenance

Condition: Very Good: Describes a work of art's image as Excellent, but may show some small signs of surrounding wear to paper or frame. There are no tears to paper margin or disruption to the paint surface.

(c) Kenneth Jack / Copyright Agency