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"Art for me is more about what I am observing than about myself. I make images that honour Life itself.
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Australian LandscapesI love the Australian landscape's rugged tenacity in the face of adversity, its timeless presence if I sit still and let it rise, its mythic redgums in (usually) dry creekbeds, and its early Settlement heritage.
I love to paint landscapes en plein air, despite Australia's myriad flies and other critters! Contact me for prices. |
Chip coping with flies while painting
Ross Bridge, Tasmania, 2016
55cm X 35cm framed
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Jacka's Brewery at Melrose, Flinders Ranges, 2012
55cm X 35cm (private collection)
White Cliffs of Willochra Creek, 2015
55cm X 35cm framed
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Overseas Memories
I remember my travel destinations most intensely by painting them.
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Bramante Church in Todi, Italy 2015 framed 42cm X 29cm framed
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S. Maria della Salute, Venice 2018 55cm X 36cm, framed
Morning overlooking Hajar Mountains Valley, Oman, 2018 55cm X 36cm, unframed
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Portraits
Since 1968 I have been drawing and painting ‘from life’, both figures and portraits. I am particularly pleased when my portrait work captures not only a good illusion and likeness, but also some ‘presence’ about the individual portrayed, which may far outlast the life of that person.
It seems that humanity has always made images of humans, whether those images are primitive archetypes of fertility, or of royalty and power, or of just another individual at a particular moment in his or her life. My work is part of that deeply human urge, to make a relatively permanent symbol of a definitely evanescent human. Contact me for prices. |
Self Portrait 1974 pen and ink 36cm X 28cm framed
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Portrait of a Man 2018 42cm X 28cm framed
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