The Paint Speaks—Materiality with paintings conservator Linda Waters

Explore Clarice Beckett’s Rainy day (1930) with paintings conservator Linda Waters and Geelong Gallery Assistant Director, Curatorial, Lisa Sullivan.

In this episode, Linda and Lisa explore the paint layers in this much-loved early 20th-century landscape painting in the Geelong Gallery Collection. Artists' materials, canvas, paint and varnish hold a surprising amount of information in addition to what we already know about an artist's work. The materials can tell you when an artwork was made, where it was made, and also about its life after that. The paint particularly reveals so much about the skill, the process, and the intention of the artist.

In this episode, Linda and Lisa show how the paint reveals Clarice Beckett's great sensitivity and phenomenal skill in her deceptively simple painting, Rainy Day. Join them to see what they find.

This podcast was produced by Linda Waters, edited by Simone Calderwood and recorded by sound engineer Anthony Carr.