Painting completed now. Fauve-esque colours akin to the Color-Field painters (who I only just learn’t about). Not sure if I’ll add more detail to the rings as they seem to glow as they are. Stretching out.. reaching for.. akin to the swimmer.. The Runner wants to reach the finishing line […]
The waves be they heat, water or sand – they affect us all. In this piece I am exploring colours and attempting to capture the mood of a sun baking figure – omnipresent in the summers of the 1970s & 80s. The colours were what prompted me to paint this […]
On a train trip, thumbing thru a book on Wassily Kandinsky, I felt inspired to create some drawings based off whatever ideas came to me from looking at some of his paintings. Not a follower of Kandinsky’s work, I’m still an admirer of him, his aim and his art – […]
Representing first love – the idealised contact between the beauty of youth. Created a little like sea tailed folk, the depiction is an attempt at representing the feeling of walking on air or floating in love. The scene from teenage years at Sydney’s Palm Beach, when you could run free […]
First created in 1982, this concept was originally about moving on from one relationship to the next – hence the different colours in the original card idea lower on the page. The style was influenced by the Sydney Opera House – designed and built by Architect Jørn Utzon. The other […]
Inspired by a photo of my son being watched over as he crawled about the beach playground. The photo also reminded me of an earlier lino print I’d created of a lioness and her cub – a mother protecting her babe. The scene was inspired by bush and coastal rock […]
My first thought when developing this concept was that of a tree ‘tyre’ swing – albeit upside down. Other visual thoughts struck me, one of which was a hollow body acoustic guitar – soundboard hole with strings. However, my overall want was to create a type of lighthouse – a […]
This idea spawned from a silly idea of making an inanimate object (a chair) having the desire or the wantto feel free. To breathe.. to fly.. to lift up. From that original concept grew something much more spiritual and keyed in to the Australian outback (Kati Thad / Lake Eye) […]
This is one of.. if not the last of the Soulworks Series. Referencing the Sun / Solar rather than Soul, it netherless relates to both – light, life, spirit, energy, fusion and all that we come from. Conceptually, the plasm loop composition may be derived from an earlier idea I […]
With the passing of another local person from my hometown community, this piece represents the busy side of life – transitioning – to the other side, where there are many familiar souls. The Original Concept – Landscape:Our dear friend’s nickname, Googie. The Soulworks series was already well underway when I […]