Penny Verdich is a contemporary artist from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Inspiration for her abstract landscape paintings is taken from landscapes both close to home and further afield. Drawing and painting on location is central to Penny’s practice, providing the foundation for work completed in her home studio. 

2022 Northern Beaches Art and Environment Prize Finalist

2022 Fishers Ghost Art Award Finalist

2021 Northern Beaches Art and Environment Prize Finalist

‘I aim to create a feeling of place through colour, tone, line and shape, drawing the viewer into the work and offering them a sense of the landscape that has so stirred my imagination.’ 

Penny Verdich, 2025.

“This painting is based on drawings from my travel sketchbook and concertina sketchbooks which tell the story of two weeks spent in Puglia, the ‘heel’ of Italy in 2023.”

“Even though a photo can capture the detail of a scene, I know that if I draw the experience it lodges in my memory in a visceral way, reflecting the sounds, the colours and the smells of that exact location.”

“Puglia is a region of vivid blue skies, of ancient olive trees, of flinty ground and stone fences that tell the stories of hundreds of years.”

Penny Verdich, 2025. 

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