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Herman Pekel was born to Dutch parents in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956. The art teachers of Herman’s youth, Roger Webber, Ernest Buckmaster and Lance McNeill were all primarily oil painters, but the experience of painting with them on location left a strong impression on Herman, giving him the freedom of spontaneity and leaving him an […]

Artwork

Noosa 2024

Oil on Canvas

100×120 cm

Oceanside

Oil on Board

80×110 cm

Seascape

Oil on Board

80×110 cm

Waterfall

Oil on Canvas

85×65 cm

Lilypad Place

Oil on Canvas

185×90 cm

Lorikeet Waterfall

Oil on Canvas

185×90 cm

Noosa Outlook

Oil on Canvas

104×104 cm

Noosa, 2023

Watercolour on paper

100×127 cm

Last light Mt Nathan

Oil on canvas

185×90 cm

Mt Tamborine waterfall

Oil on canvas

180×90 cm

Noosa banksia

Oil on canvas

90×185 cm

Tamborine waterfall

Watercolour on paper

127×110 cm

Pond Mt Tamborine

Watercolour on paper

80×110 cm

Stream Mt Nathan

Watercolour on paper

110×80 cm

Waterfall and koi

Watercolour on paper

127×110 cm

Glasshouse approaching storm

Watercolour on paper

80×119 cm

Headland View

Oil on canvas

100×150 cm

Cedar Creek Falls Mt Tamborine

Oil on Canvas

137×183 cm

BIOGRAPHY

Herman Pekel was born to Dutch parents in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956. The art teachers of Herman’s youth, Roger Webber, Ernest Buckmaster and Lance McNeill were all primarily oil painters, but the experience of painting with them on location left a strong impression on Herman, giving him the freedom of spontaneity and leaving him an intuitive painter, ultimately working from the light source.

Herman painted spasmodically until 1981 before commencing a Fine Arts degree at RMIT and studying under Dale Hickey and Jeff Makin. Like many young artists Herman experimented for a time with abstract expressionism, but he is now well known for his oils and watercolours. Herman is an artist of energy and enthusiasm. He is able to see a painting in almost any subject matter and is capable of producing award winning work in oil, watercolour or gouache.

Environmental issues are a great concern to Herman and his love of the landscape reflects that in almost everything he paints. He produces paintings of strong design and powerful impact – every brushstroke vibrant and visible. The scope of Herman’s work has ranged from dynamic industrial scenery to soft, draped interiors and broad Australian landscapes, which indicates the creatively fearless nature of this unique artist.


Herman was the winner of the Camberwell Rotary Watercolour prize in 1993 and was previously three times a finalist in Camberwell’s Travel Scholarship Award, winner of the 1989 Camberwell Watercolour Prize and also the Travel Study Scholarship in 1989. He has also won many other awards, including the Camberwell Rotary Art Show’s Best Oil in 2004, the Camberwell Rotary Watercolour prize in 1989, 1993, 1995 and 2006, the Camberwell Rotary Travel Scholarship in 1989, and in 1989 and 1993 he won the Alice Bale Award.


In 1994 the National Taiwan Art Institute asked Herman to participate in a book and travelling exhibition with selected artists from Australia, USA and Taiwan.

Herman exhibits his work regularly in the USA. His works are featured in the books “Australian Impressionist and Realist Artists” which features Australian Artists and was compiled by Tom Roberts, “120 Years of Watercolourists”, by the Australian Realist Artists, “Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand” by Max Germaine and “Profile on Contemporary Watercolours”.

Catalogues

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Exhibitions

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