The Slim Dusty Centre in Kempsey has a great new item on display as the successful portrait and landscape artist Bob Baird has loaned his life size portrait of Slim Dusty to put on display at the centre for the next six months.
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Slim Dusty is Australia's legendary country music singer and songwriter and Baird was invited to contribute a portrait for a touring exhibition by Tweed River Regional Art Gallery for 2001.
The Australian Odyssey toured eleven Regional Art Galleries, in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria.
This Portrait exhibition was also to acknowledge the centenary of the founding of Federation in Australia 1901- 2001.
The painting has been on show in many public galleries and spent time in parliament house but Baird believes it is at a fitting location.
“It has been to a lot of great venues but it fits in well at the Slim Dusty museum,” Baird said.
Baird attempts to capture Slims well known character and details in this portrait.
“The aim behind my portraits is to capture the inner emotion/character of the sitter. By the use of composition, lighting, body language and great attention to drawing to create a strong feeling of spatial depth and the ultimate challenge of converting paint into flesh.”
Baird has been an established portrait painter for over four decades and has painted other famous Australian's including current New South Wales Premier Mike Baird.
The painting will be on show for the next six months at the Slim Dusty Centre in the Artists collection and is for sale.
The Slim Dusty Country music festival begins on Monday October 17 and runs all week until Sunday October 23.
