Watercolour on Archers paper, 30 x 30 cm
working garden
Jonquils, November Lily
Watercolour on Archers paper, each 30 x 20 cm
Snowballs
Watercolour on Archers paper, 20 x 30 cm
Dog paintings
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
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
Tuesday Morning
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. This Tuesday morning, it is packed.
Oil on linen, 38 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
Maria’s Garden, Harvest Moon
Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2017
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
Maria’s Garden, Path
Stanthorpe Art Prize
Two of my works, “Maria’s Garden, Path” and “Moonlight Trampoline” have been selected as finalists for this year’s Stanthorpe Art Prize. With $33,000 in awards, more than 1400 images were submitted from 507 artists from Australia and overseas. This exhibition is the highlight of the Stanthorpe Art Festival which runs from 3rd June to 17th July.
The second in this series, “Maria’s Garden, Path” is of my neighbour’s garden, with its history of Maria’s long marriage and Italian post war migration.
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