Boab Tree

Boab Tree

Oil on canvas

61cm x 82cm

$1800.00

Sergio Sill was born in Pola, Italy, in 1946 and migrated to Australia with his family in 
1951. Early in his childhood it become evident that he loved to work with his hands - 
carving, drawing and painting. As a teenager he would escape Melbourne to venture 
down the rugged Victorian coastline and revel in surfing and his love of the wind, the sea, 
and the freedom nature provided. 

After studying and practicing architecture for four years, Sergio embarked on a different 
journey enrolling in an Art and Design course at Preston Institute of Technology. In 1979, 
he set a Pottery Studio in Hawthorn Victoria, later relocating to Upper Lansdowne in the 
NSW mid-north coast. 

His artistic passion continued to evolve and 1990 took him from the pottery-wheel to the 
easel. His love for the sea inspired him to move to Sydney's Central Coast were set up a 
studio/gallery in 1997. 

Sergio likes to punctuate his painting with intermittent trends of inspiration from the 
wonders of nature and exotic lands where the eye, heart and soul find tranquility, joy, 
moments of beauty in stillness and transcending into a profound reality. It is these 
moments and exhilarations that Sergio aspires to capture on paint, pastel and mixed 
media to share with others. 

SERGIO SILL 
1946 - Born in Italy - Family migrated to Australia in 1950 

Education 
1962-66 - Studied Architecture - Professional practice for four years  
1975-79 - Diploma of Art and Design - Preston Institute of Technology 
1978-81 - Pottery studio in Hawthorne, Victoria  
1982-91 – Pottery studio in Mt Coxcombe, NSW  
1991 - Professional Painting Career 

Exhibitions & Festivals Solo Exhibitions 
1979 - to date - 29 Solo Exhibitions 
1980 – to date – 41 x Group Exhibitions &Festivals  

Study Tours 
1982 - South Australia and Northern Territory Outback  
1989 - Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand 
1989 - Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Holand, Switzerland  
1998- Hawaii and Maui Islands 
1999 - Bali, Indonesia 
2000 - Italy and France 
2002 - Northern Territory - Kakadu National Park; Katherine Gorge; Arnhem Land 
20 05 - Peru: Lima; Cusco; Machu Picchu; Huaraz, Cordillera Blanca; Amazon Jungle 
2009 - Vietnam - Across from South to North 
2013 - Ratua, Vanuatu 
2014 - NSW Outback, Broken Hill and Menindee Lakes 
2014 - New York; San José de Costa Rica; Peru - Lima and Arequipa 
2019 - Italy 
2019 – Mexico 
2022 – WA Broome and the Kimberleys 
2023 – WA the Kimberleys 

Collections 
State and Regional Galleries including Australian National Gallery – ACT; Art Gallery of 
Victoria; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Corporate and Private Collections across 
Australia, Europe, Japan and South America. 

Artistic Approach 
I love to commune with nature and travel to locations in remote areas from Australia’s 
rugged coastline across to its magnificent mountains sketching and absorbing the sense 
of place, the atmosphere, the forms, the colours, the spirit of the sea and the land.  
Aiming to transform the sea and landscapes transformed through spirit, I experiment with 
various techniques. 

I may start off with gouache, pastels, graphite, mixed media for the initial studies then 
moving onto larger oil paintings, drawing into them with graphite, oil sticks and natural 
elements such as tree branches as well as large stiff brooms always seeking to 
experiment and create beauty. The work may become an abstraction of nature.