Breakers Dock – SOLD

A charming arrival to my Art studio is this lovely nautically themed work, “Breakers Dock” by Tom Garrett (1979-1952). “Breakers Dock” was created using the unique and difficult method of Monotype, a now rarely seen and largely lost art form.

A monotype is created by painting onto a plate of glass or silver. This image is then transferred to a sheet of moistened paper, giving a pleasant and textured surface and soft, mottled colouring that is akin in appearance to a watercolour. Monotypes are unique as there is no possible means of creating more than one.

Tom Garrett was born in Hobart in 1879 into a family of merchants and accountants. He moved to Melbourne in 1900 and read for Holy Orders, which he abandoned. He eventually settled in Sydney, working in the art department of Swaine’s Stationery shop.

In 1929, when he was 50 years old, Garrett held his first solo exhibition in Sydney, which was a great success. For the remainder of his life, Garrett held regular and successful exhibitions in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. Such was his mastery of the rarely used medium of Monotype, that he became renowned as Australia’s best monotpye artist.

Garrett’s work is held in the collections of the State Galleries of New South Wales, Queensland,
South Australia and Tasmania, plus several regional galleries, the Howard Hinton Collection at Armadale Teachers College and many private collections throughout Australia.