Greg Wood was born in Melbourne and studied Fine Arts at the Hobart School of Art in Tasmania. He lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria, where he has maintained a dedicated full-time practice for many years. Residencies in Tasmania, Brussels and Japan have deepened his understanding of landscape as both an emotional and psychological experience.
Wood's paintings are drawn from memory rather than direct observation; atmospheric, unhurried works that resist fixed time, place or human presence. By stripping away markers of habitation and narrative, he opens the work outward, creating space for the viewer's own memories, emotions and associations. The scenes feel familiar yet remain unplaceable: suspended somewhere between imagination and location.
Mist, diffused light, muted tones and softened horizons dissolve the boundary between the real and the imagined. There is a quiet, ethereal stillness to the work; psychologically alluring and deeply reflective. Rather than recording landscape as it appears, Wood seeks to evoke how it is felt and held within us, shaped more by intuition than by clear representation.
Wood's work is held in significant public and private collections, including the Gippsland Art Gallery, the Joyce Nissan Collection and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Art Collection. He has been represented by Otomys since 2019 and has exhibited extensively across Australia in both solo and curated exhibitions - with work selected for the John Glover Prize, the Bayside Art Prize, the Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, the Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale Art Prize and the Kate Derum Award.
In 2022, Greg Wood was awarded the John Leslie Art Prize, one of Australia's most respected accolades for landscape painting.