birth_place training nationality field birth_date works image article_title name bgcolour
bairnsdale , victoria , australia caulfield , monash university institute of technology , new york studio school australian artist , painter 1956 oil on canvas/linen/panel nora sumberg001.jpg nora sumberg
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nora sumberg

nora sumberg -lrb- born 1956 -rrb- is an australian landscape painter whose work has over time become increasingly lyrical , abstract and atmospheric .
her art is characterized by intense , floating swathes of colour , impressionistic and ambiguous terrain and glowing , multi-directional light sources .
examples of sumberg 's art are held in the national gallery of victoria , the queensland art gallery , the heide museum of modern art and the smorgan collection .
sumberg is also the granddaughter of voldemar sumberg , the minister for social affairs under the otto tief government in estonia .
estonian culture is important to sumberg and she has an artist residency in tallinn in 2011 .
