Maria’s Garden

Dog paintings

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Dogs 2400 final

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

Maria’s Garden, Back of House

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Finalist, Lyn McCrae Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery 2018

maria's garden, back of house a4 copy

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

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Winner

Andrew Fisher Portrait Prize, Gympie Regional Gallery, 2018

back from black a4 copy

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, Harvest Moon

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Finalist,  Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2017

maria's garden, harvest moon - a4

It had been several months since I had first sketched in my neighbour Maria’s garden and I found it overtaken by the beans that now covered every frame and trellis. The space was more closed in, rooms of green with a central corridor, and it feels like those beans could take over the house, even the world. We had a harvest moon at this time, and again the garden was transformed by the intensity of the light of a super-moon, drained of colour but with a sharp clarity of detail and shadow.

Charcoal, pastel on Arches paper, 68 x 108cm