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Ralph Kerle

Ralph Kerle is an award winning Australian artist working with a camera whose work has been exhibited in Berlin, Lisbon, Melbourne, Palm Beach (USA), Riga, Vilnius and Sydney.

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Treecolour

A hidden Middle Harbour landscape becomes a natural temple of green, turquoise and reflected light—its tranquillity carrying the memory of an industrial past.

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Nature’s Infrastructure reveals a hidden world of resonant blue, forest green and flowing gold. Roads, coastlines and mysterious floating forms seem to emerge across the water, creating an imagined network of movement, landscape and passage beneath the abstraction.

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Kandinsky's Follies

For some time, I couldn't find the right title. I saw dancing figures in the reflection and found myself thinking about the great theatrical follies and the choreography of Busby Berkeley, where individual figures become part of a larger, constantly moving pattern. Then I encountered Wassily Kandinsky's Improvisations.

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Under the Weather

What strikes me is the balance between recognition and disorientation. We can sense the marina, the boats, the rigging, the early morning light. Yet the image refuses to settle into simple description. The world remains visible, but it has slipped into another state, somewhere between observation and dream.

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Blue Mood

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” — John Burroughs

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Captain C. Gull on Alert, Too

A playful nod to surrealism, this artwork captures a seagull with an almost human vigilance—transformed by nature’s own hand into a commanding presence.

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THE RALPH KERLE COLLECTION

Discover the incredible works of Ralph Kerle. A Selection of fine art photographs.

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Burnt Out 3

$5,000.00 AUD

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The Water Line 3

$6,000.00 AUD

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Burning Outback

$6,600.00 AUD

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On the Way To Bluedom

$2,200.00 AUD

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Invisible Eyes

$7,000.00 AUD

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Ralph Kerle is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary abstract art photographers, based in Sydney, Australia. His work has been featured in numerous photography exhibitions and galleries in Australia and world-wide. He creates photographic art by capturing real abstract images that exist in nature, focusing on water surfaces to create an abstract form of ocean and nature art photography.

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September 7, 2026

The Landscape Within the Reflection

In Impressions of a Turner Landscape 9, light, water and reflection create an imagined landscape whose meaning changes with every viewer.

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August 25, 2026

Treecolour: Beauty, Memory and the Australian Landscape

In a secluded mangrove channel of Sydney’s Middle Harbour, native trees dissolve into luminous greens, turquoise light and dark floating forms. Treecolour explores the tranquil beauty of this hidden waterway and the tension created by the industrial history that still shadows its landscape.

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Kandinsky’s Follies abstract water reflection artwork displayed in a contemporary living space

August 15, 2026

Kandinsky’s Follies — Finding Music in the Water

Kandinsky’s Follies began simply enough: a close-up photograph of a reflection on the surface of the water. The colours came from a vessel, but the water had taken possession of them. Blue, yellow, white, black and gold had been stretched and twisted into fluid forms that seemed to dance across the surface. I knew there was something in the image, but for some time I couldn't find its name.

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