TUGGERANONG GP Ian Pryor joins a long line of doctor-artists.

Now semi-retired from a practice begun 25 years ago when Tuggeranong’s town centre was in its infancy, he is embarking on an exhibition through which he hopes to meet and reconnect with many of the families who came through his practice.

“I have set out to create images which have been stimulated from my environment and which have also evolved spontaneously from my imagination,” Pryor says. “In the process of doing this, it has occurred to me that beauty and structure are so often disrupted by illogicalities and discontinuities. This realisation has given me licence to risk incorporating such elements within my works in an attempt to strengthen their impact and to better engage the onlooker.”

Pryor is a great believer that in art, size matters and most of his images are on a large scale, of which he says, “There is something particular and evocative about an image which is large enough to enfold the viewer within its grasp.”

His images, both  conventional and surreal, relate to the world of nature- a good match to the coming spring season.

Ian Pryor exhibition, at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, August 22 – September 10, official opening by cartoonist and painter Ian Sharpe,  Thursday, August 23 from 5.30pm. All welcome.