“James St”
Acrylic on board, 80 x 40cm
After spending most of my professional life painting unbuilt buildings and using every trick in the book to make them say “look at me”, it is exciting to paint a subject that is existing and more modest in its presentation. Walking home from school as a kid, I would look at each house, trying decide which one I liked the best and would like to live in, curious about what they were like inside. Who lives in these two houses and what are their lives like?
This painting recently won the Thomas Payne Juror Observational Award awarded by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. The award was one of the top eleven awards chosen from a field of over three hundred and eighty entries from around the world. The painting will be displayed in Architecture in Perspective 30 Exhibition opening in Toronto later this year and will feature in the catalogue and on the ASAI website.
JaneGrealyArtist 
James Street is quickly becoming so gentrified. These two are just out of the retail precinct, on the left travelling east towards the Brisbane river. Congrats on the award and your choice of subjects, they must be owned by friends or folks in the same family or nationality, don’t you think?
There was an influx of Italian immigrants to New Farm after WW2 and families would often buy houses near each other, so perhaps, yes.