Mick Pospischil

I am a full-time 2D artist working mainly in oil, charcoal and pastel. I live in regional Queensland, Australia and my principal subjects are landscape, portraiture and environmental issues.

I usually draw from life with large chunks of charcoal directly on the panel, then add at lest three oil paint glazes to the drawing in the studio over several days.

The rapid drawing captures the immediacy of the subject and the oil glazes are a slow and subtle meditation in the manner of the masters.

Studied under Rod Milgate, Andrew Sibley and Lynne Eastaway.

“Mix Bak”, Warwick Regional Art Gallery, 13 Nov. 2014 to 11 Jan. 2015
“The Dying Darling”, toured by Queensland Arts Council in regional Queensland under the auspices of Stanthorpe Art Gallery, 2009 to 2011.
“The Dying Darling”, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Sept/Oct 2008.
“The Dying Darling”, Mildura Cultural Centre, 15 April to 21 May 2008.
“Painting by Heart”, RM Galleries, Hamilton, Brisbane, 21 March to 3 April 2007.
“Bingara and Beyond”, Quilpie Gallery, 5 to 24 August 2005.
“Frigidaring”, Warwick Regional Art Gallery, 3 to 21 June 2005.
“Portraits by Pospischil”, Warwick Regional Art Gallery, 19 April to 10 May 2005.
“Bingara and Beyond”, Warwick Regional Art Gallery, 2 to 25 June 2004.
“Adventures in Tintown”, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, 9 Jan to 16 Feb 2004.
“Swamped”, Warwick Regional Art Gallery, April/May 2003.
“Swamped”, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, 1 – 27 Oct. 2002.
“Stripping the Landscape”, Warwick Art Gallery, 25 Jan–24 Feb 2002 (running in conjunction with the Conrad Martens exhibition “Northern Journey” from the QAG.)
“Anything’s Pospischil”, Warwick Art Gallery, 13 June–7 July 2000.