Top left to right,
“LuLu”, “Zeb”, “Waiting”, “Please”, “Bella Waiting”, “Ball”, “Yes?”, “White Teeth”, “Look”, “Dogs”, “Friends”, “Legs”.
Watercolour on Arches paper, each 14 x 14 cm
People
Black Night, White Dog
For many years I have studied the dogs and landscape at my local dog park. I am fascinated by its existance behind a dense screen of trees within an inner city suburb. Night transforms – and a beam of light reveals a dog approaching down a path.
Water colour on Arches paper, 23 x 48 cm
Dog dreaming
Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2019
Is this what the dogs are dreaming, or is it my dreaming of the dogs?
Watercolour on Arches paper, 39 x 49
One Night at dog park
Finalist Len Fox Painting Award 2019
I often wonder what ensues in dog park at night. This painting is not an observation of an event I have seen or captured, but of my thoughts of people, of dogs and of this space. The only actuality is the painting.
Oil on linen, each 84 x 58 cm
Blue Dog
Watercolour on Arches paper, 20 x 40 cm
Dog Park in the time of covid
Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2020
At about 6.15am people trickle into dog park with their dogs and the day begins. This year it is different. We have to stand 1.5m apart. The dogs continue to play – no social distancing for them. Within a few weeks, people are banned from gathering in the park.
Oil on linen, 40 x 60 cm
Full Moon at Dog park
Finalist Tattersall’s Landscape Prize
Much of the time, dog park is empty of people. Tall trees and birdsong conceal the fact that the park lies within a highly urbanised inner-city suburb. I often wonder what ensues when no one is around. This painting is not an observation of an event, but my imagining of dogs and of this space. The only actuality is the painting.
Oil on linen, 83 x 136 cm
Winter Morning, Teneriffe Dog Park
Winner, Henry Bartlett Memorial People’s Choice Award
Highly Commended
Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize 2018
Most days I go to dog park, early, with Zozo.
In winter it is quite dark, the sun doesn’t hit the grass until late morning.
I love the dogs, the people, and the trees – equally I think.
Oil on linen, 83 x 137cm
Maria’s Garden, Back of House
Finalist, Lyn McCrae Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery 2018
Maria and her husband constructed rooms under the house, the chook shed, an outside oven and climbing frames for the beans and other vegetables. Water was diverted from the roof into garbage bins and Maria uses a saucepan tied to a broom handle to distribute water to the plants. Surrounded by new development, Maria’s house and garden are unlikely to survive the increasing pressure for higher density living.
Charcoal, pastel on Arches paper, 67 x 108cm
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