Graham Lupp

The historic Australian city of Bathurst, in New South Wales, is my hometown and my base. After five years of lecturing in the arts at what is now Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, in 1984 I decided to go painting full-time. The course of my career, dating from 1975, has seen over 50 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows.

I delight working in most media, moving freely between oils, acrylics, gouache, watercolours and pastels. When drawing I prefer compressed charcoal or coloured pencils. When travelling I use pen and ink and watercolour. Whichever medium I choose, a rich variation in surface finish is something I consciously pursue.

As someone with a great respect for things handmade I also enjoy doing all my own framing. I use archival museum board, both to draw on and as matboards. For mouldings, I rout my own standard museum profiles using New Guinea rosewood, a renewable plantation timber. The frames are then sanded, stained and beeswax finished by hand.