PAINTING

Paintings that evoke a sense of place and a joy of mark making.

“Time Out” an exhibition at Leichhardt Library, 23 Norton Street, Leichhardt, NSW Australia in March 2020. The work is based on 1940s restaurant crockery, starting with my father in law’s Tamworth “Aroney’s Fish restaurant.

Galah Sunrise

A flock of galahs and two cockatoos in a gumtree coloured by sunset. Grey, iridescent skies. The birds are loosely brushed on a subtle iridescent background that changes with the direction of light.

Expansion

Bright orange strokes of colour radiate out into a blue and brown background.

Colour Energy Landscape

Oil on canvas 90x90cm

Piles of Crockery

Oil and acrylic on canvas 70x70cm

I was thinking of how crockery is always waiting for use.

Part of a series exhibited at Leichhardt Library, 23 Norton Street, Leichhardt, NSW Australia in March 2020

Cupology Green and two spoons Acrylic on plastic panel .jpg

Artists Studios - Ochre

Oil on canvas 500 x 500mm

Sunny Studio

2015 Oil on canvas 700 x 700mm

Afternoon at the Beach

2018 Oil on canvas 40 x 40cm (sold)

Wolf Mountain

2017 Oil on canvas 400 x 500mm

DRAWING

Drawing can be so immediate. It can evoke a sense of place and a mood. It is often fresher than a more considered painting. Drawing is where I have fun and try out ideas.

Australian Forest

2018 Charcoal on gessoed paper. 50 x 70 cm (sold)

Storm Clouds

2019 Charcoal on gessoed paper 45 x 45cm (sold)

Old Riverine Tree

Charcoal, conte and gesso on paper. 50 x 70cm

Libby's Chair

Charcoal and Conte 2016 45 x 45cm

Avril Painting

2014 Charcoal, conte and collage 450 x 450mm

Conversation

2014 Charcoal and conte on gesso paper 450 x 450mm

On the Table

Charcoal and conte 45x45cm (Sold)

PRINTMAKING

Printmaking is another playful media where subjects experience new vigour because of the different mark making. I’ve really enjoyed how the atmospheric effects add to the emotional impact of woodshed interiors.

Wild Garden

Lithograph 2016 28 x 22cm

Dishes

Screenprint 30x20cm

Windy Morning

Etching and aquatint 15 x 15cm

Woolshed Book

5 etchings in a handmade concertina book (detail)

27 x 26 cm (260 cm long)

$750

Woolshed Book

5 etchings in a handmade concertina book

27 x 26 cm (260 cm long)

$750

Woolshed Book

5 etchings in a handmade concertina book (detail - Kinchega Morning)

27 x 26 cm (260 cm long)

$750

WOOLSHED PAINTINGS

I’ve been enamoured by the woolsheds of western NSW, especially the interiors for a lot of years now. In October 2013 at the Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, I exhibited paintings of interiors of woolsheds called Cathedrals of Wood – Painting In Woolsheds. I have not abandoned the subject, but have been working on other themes more.

These woolsheds have been built over a hundred years ago from available timber, each one is unique and fascinating. In the paintings, empty space contrasts with complex patterning of supports and yards. Light drawn through open walls and irregular timbers produce intriguing patterns. The wood, mellowed through age and contact with sheep, is a feature – rough sawn red gum at Kinchega and pine saplings at Mungo, but each is distinctive and beautiful.

Morning Haze

Oil on canvas

90 x 90 cm

SOLD

Afternoon Light, Windy Woolshed Yards

2012 Oil on canvas 700 x 700 mm

Architecture of the Pens

2009 Oil on Canvas 900 x 900 mm

Pattern of Yards, Kinchega Woolshed

2010 Oil on canvas 700 x 700 mm

Early Morning, Windy Yards

2013 Oil on canvas 700 x 700mm

Zimmerman Woolshed

Acrylic on canvas 900 x 900cm

Pattern of Yards, Windy Woolshed

2012 Oil on canvas 700 x 700mm

Umbango Autumn

2016 oil on canvas 1000 x 500mm

Marking Time in the Sun

2014 Oil on canvas 1000 x 500mm

Windy Clerestorey

2013 Oil on canvas 90 x 900mm

Shadow Time, Wairuna

2013 Oil on canvas 500 x 500mm

ARTIST BOOKS

Pentacost Riverbank

Conceived during our travelling and taken from drawings and photographs this concertina book Pentacost Riverbank was exhibited as part of one+2 artist studio Gallery’s Rock, Paper Plant Exhibition.

It has two painted sides: the first a panorama based on the trees found beside the Pentacost River during our stay there. The second are small vignettes of parts of the drawings in monochrome, with notes as to the species.