Perceval's biography reads as a who's who of Australian Modernism; exhibiting as a nineteen year old with artists such as Tucker, Nolan, Vassilieff and Pugh, continuing on to become a member of the Angry Penguins group and marrying into the Boyd family. Perceval is an important contributor within a revolutionary period of Australian art history and an artist whose work reflects an unforgettable period of artistic experimentation.

After a five-year hiatus in the 1950s, (while he was working in ceramics) the artist emerged with a fresh approach to painting and exhibited at the newly opened Australian Galleries in Melbourne. Perceval's foray into landscape in the mid 1950s was the artist's first systematic experime...