In an echo of nature itself, John Olsen’s work resists stagnation. It is in constant movement, his line looping through landscapes and lifeforms to evoke the interconnectedness and vitality of all living creatures.

Lake Hindmarsh encapsulates the artist’s lifelong celebration of Australia’s unique terrain, presenting the Wimmera’s inland lake in his recognisable lyrical style. This bold work becomes a living map of movement, colour, and energy. The large size amplifies Olsen’s sweeping aerial perspective, allowing his meandering lines and earthy ochres to envelop the viewer. Derived from his celebrated landscape series, Lake Hindmarsh offers collectors not just a striking statement piece, but also a direct connection to Olsen’s vision of the Australian landscape as a place teeming with vitality, history, and poetic abstraction.

Olsen is represented across all public collections, contributing not only a distinct but a deeply contemplative perspective of landscape within Australian art. In his words, “Don’t think of form, think of forming. Forming is a growing, developing process, like a plant or living organism.”

John OLSEN (1928 - 2023)
'Lake Hindmarsh'
archival pigment print on paper
Image Size: 100 x 110 cm
Dimensions: 112 x 117 cm
Signed: Editioned and signed 'John Olsen' in margin.

Comes with Letter of Provenance

Embossed with authenticity seal lower right. In addition to the hand-signature, this work is signed and dated in plate, lower right: John Olsen.

Condition: Excellent

(c) John Olsen / Copyright Agency