About the Artist

The Laws of Nature.

Unable to run

When the weather turns 

The trees are patient,

They won’t blame god,

human

Or the wind 

Rather, they parade, attentive

To the sun, to heaven, to the creator. 

Struck by lightning, 

Smashed by cyclone, 

Unfurled in a sun shower-

Never self-pitying

Only reaching upwards, with devotion

Even when Forsaken

They remain 

Loyal to the Laws of Nature

Yudha Scholes 

Yudha studied Visual Arts at the University of Melbourne and held his first solo exhibition at the George Paton Gallery in 1992. He has exhibited his artworks in solo and group exhibitions since then. 

In 2021, he set up a studio in the seaside town of Corinella, to work on The Laws of Nature – his latest collection of paintings. Yudha has found the Casuarina trees huddling along the clifftop to be the perfect muse to portray the feelings of solitude and yearning that have descended on him through periods of enforced isolation.

This project is an intricately delicate entanglement between the words and imagery of Romantic poets, such as Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Lord Byron and Walter De La Mare; and a love of the natural world. 

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