Adri Moller - "Urban Landscape V"

Urban Landscape V
Oil on Canvas, US$ 557

Urban Landscape V

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Details

Oil on Canvas
Daler Rowney Georgian Oil

W: 600mm x H: 760mm x D: 40mm
W: 24" x H: 30" x D: 2"

This work is unframed

Price

US$ 557

Scale

Reference

AM1104-2024

About "Urban Landscape V"

This work was born from my time in Vietnam, where colonial architecture seemed to breathe with silence and memory. I was struck by the way these buildings carried the weight of history--grand facades weathered by tropical air, shutters closed tight as if guarding secrets. Standing before them, I felt both awe and unease, sensing the hidden lives that once unfolded inside. The painting became a way to explore that tension: the public face of stone and plaster versus the private, unseen stories locked away. For me, it is not just about architecture but about the residue of human presence, the way walls absorb emotion and time. As I painted, I felt I was scraping back layers of history, uncovering fragments of forgotten voices. This piece is my meditation on how places hold memory, and how silence itself can feel haunted.

Adri Moller

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About Adri

My work explores landscape as a place of memory rather than description. I am not painting locations as they appear, but as they feel once time, distance, and emotion have softened their edges.
Working primarily in oil, I build surfaces through layering, scraping, and subtle glazing. These processes allow forms to emerge slowly -- horizons dissolve, structures fade, water becomes atmosphere. I am interested in the quiet space between presence and absence, where land, water, and built forms feel suspended rather than fixed.
The landscapes I return to -- open terrain, waterlines, distant settlements -- are pared back to their essential relationships of tone, mass, and light. By reducing detail, I create space for stillness and reflection. The work is intentionally restrained; gesture is controlled, colour muted, and composition simplified to hold a sense of emotional distance. This distance is not coldness, but a contemplative pause -- a moment where the viewer can enter without being directed.
Surfaces play an important role. Marks are partially erased, textures buried under thin veils of paint, suggesting traces of history or memory beneath what is visible. The paintings exist in a state of becoming and dissolving at the same time.
Ultimately, my work is about quiet -- about the subtle tension between solidity and disappearance, and the way landscape can hold both solitude and presence in the same breath.

Price Range

US$ 309-557

Exhibitions

Annual exhibitions at the National Arts Festival (NAF) in Makhanda, where I curate and present collections at St Andrew's.

Education

BA Political Science

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Works > Keywords > architecture
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