‘In this response to a large oil painting in the collection, poet Allis Hamilton recalls her poem Hare, as having ‘writing itself onto my page’ after viewing Philip Wolfhagen’s Southern Vista I. As Allis describes, "there is no visible hare in Wolfhagen’s painting yet to me it felt like it was there, or could quite easily be there, in among the shadowy hedges of the landscape."‘
You can read the poem here:
Philip Wolfhagen, Southern Vista I, 2008, oil on beeswax on linen. Castlemaine Art Museum, Purchased with the support of the Robert Salzer Foundation and the T C Stewart Bequest Fund, 2008. Courtesy of Dominik Mersch Gallery.