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
garden
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
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
Back from Black
Winner
Andrew Fisher Portrait Prize, Gympie Regional Gallery, 2018
Several years ago a series of very difficult events unfolded culminating in my getting a serious health issue which meant that I couldn’t work, lost my business, my clients. Long story short, new drug, health restored. I started drawing gardens rather than buildings. I’m “Back from Black” and in Maria’s Garden !
Oil on linen, 60 x 100cm
Maria’s Garden, Clothes Line
Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2018
It is at the clothesline that Maria’s garden combines practicality and decoration in an uniquely Australian way. The Hill’s Hoist is ringed by geraniums and mown grass, with an outer ring of pot plants and flowers, all grown from ‘cuts’.
Pastel, charcoal on Arches paper, 75 x 109 cm
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