June 27 - July 21, 2008
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Back lane, Paris
36 x 25cms
$3,000
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The silence of snow – Blackheath
38 x 61cms
$4,000
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Conducting Wagner
33 x 26cms
$3,500
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Artist Statement
Watercolour has a mind of its own; it's more about what is suggests – active versus passive or density versus translucency. In these paintings as with most of my work there are hard and soft edges, some details left out – hoping the viewer will be drawn in and fill in the blanks and in doing so have their imagination become part of the painting.
I confess that my own methods are slightly unorthodox, I don't draw the image in pencil and then fill in the colour, I splash lots of water on the paper then add colour and try to control the image, often ending up with a muddy mess which is ripped up. But sometimes what is in my head ends up as a painting.
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Interior, Royal Hotel, Tangiers
35 x 27cms
$3,500
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Enjoying the day
19 x 37cms
$1,800
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Garden flowers in a white jug
25 x 17cms
$1,200
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Shopping in Double Bay
43 x 32cms
$3,500
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The Salvo’s Christmas party
28 x 36cms
$3,000
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Tall poppies
54 x 36cms
$4,000
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These days most of my work is done in my old church which is also my studio, gleaned from notes, drawings, photographs and imagination, the latter being treated very freely. It is a very private activity and I don't like talking about it and hope the paintings are their own advocate.
As for inspiration, it's all around us, we just have to look and listen.
Living and working in this old church isn't easy and I am still waiting for divine intervention but it hasn't happened yet. Since my next career move is 'dead', it probably never will.
However, I shall continue to struggle with the mystery that is Watercolour.
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A dash of red in London
28 x 36cms
$3,000
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Bad hair day
35 x 25cms
$2,800
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Mob frightened by thunder
53 x 72cms
$4,500
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Dining alfresco, Paris
25 x 20cms
$1,500
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Crossroads to Hartley Vale, Blue Mountains
23 x 44cms
$2,800
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He’ll be back darling
33 x 28cms
$3,000
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Guy Faukes night on Hampstead Heath
52 x 74cms
$4,500
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Who invited the Scarlet Lady?
36 x 27cms
$3,500
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Downpour in Hunter Street
27 x 32cms
$2,800
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The Ladies who lunch
35 x 26cms
$3,500
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White cliffs – Dover
16 x 26cms
$1,200
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Lost in London
37 x 26cms
$3,500
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Moorings, Port Stephens
32 x 22cms
$2,800
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Night fishing, Salamander
22 x 32cms
$2,800
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Nocturne – The Hunter River
33 x 28cms
$2,800
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Orange tree in the garden
34 x 26cms
$3,000
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The rowboat
21 x 17cms
$1,200
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Rainy evening, Newcastle
34 x 25cms
$3,500
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2am in a Mayfield bar
32 x 26cms
$2,800
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Winter swimmers
22 x 36cms
$2,800
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Wadda you lookin’ at?
35 x 26cms
$3,000
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Figures in the rain
23 x 24cms
$1,800
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