The artworks I've included in this project are favourites of mine from a time when all my work was physically done. The quality of the images reflects a time when my cameras for recording the artwork were basic. A lesson to all young artists - record as well as you can your work as you I have done my best to correct the colour and definition but as many weren't digitally photographed there was a limit to the enhancement.
Oil on Aluminium - 1200mm x 1200mm
Charcoal Drawing
Perth Galleries asked artists to decorate a bowl.
Oil on Ink Washed Canvas
Oil on Ink Washed Canvas
Oil on Ink Washed Canvas
This is one of two paintings which came to me after driving through bushland still smouldering from a recent bushfire in late summer. Though it was shocking seeing the burnt trees and shrubs, the images were still dramatic from an artists perspective.
Scumbled acrylic on prepared board
Pastel drawing
Oil on canvas painting
These 2 paintings were done after a 5 week stay in Olmet just out of Lodeve in the South of France.
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Watercolour
Watercolour
Gouache Drawing
This painting - oil on board, was a study or exercise in painting on a coloured ground. I chose what I now consider the most difficult colour - yellow. The lesson learned was about complimentary contrast and what appears to be green is in fact a blueish yellow. It proved to be the most difficult painting I have ever done.
Acrylic on board
This is really a portrait of my twin Marg - who at the time was living in New Guinea. The hat, chair and cushion were some of her belongings left for me to mind. It could have been called a stilllife but it is also a valid portrait of someone not present. The work is now owned by another twin, As happens many times a work seems to find the right home.
This work is acrylic on a prepared textured board. The paint is scumbled across the surface to get the blending of colours. A slate floor was the inspiration for this work
Acrylic on board
Watercolour
I include this work because it was the first digital image I did - in 1995 - bitmap as I was using a very old Mac. It reminds me that 2D artwork is really about images - defining it by the technique is misleading. Images come from our imagination even if they started life from an external source.
Bitmap digital image - 1995
Ferguson Valley - Western Australia