Dorothy Braund 'Umbrellas on the Beach' neo-expressionism titled and signed 'David Boyd'

titled and signed 'David Boyd' in margin

a cluster of forest bridging the two planes

Works like ‘Boatsheds’ are hazy and immediate – a reflection of how it feels to succumb to one’s senses

Slightly abstracted

Signed: Signed lower left Auguste Blackman

Dorothy Braund 'Umbrellas on the Beach' neo-expressionism titled and signed 'David Boyd'Australian modernist Dorothy Braund pursued simplicity. As she described, it knocked her out theres no chance for accidental effects. If you are simple everything has to relate and work an ethos that steered her attitude towards art, producing work that was more musical than literal, hymns about people, places and activities. Throughout her oeuvre, Braund repeatedly returned to the beach. Like artists before and after her, she recognised the vital