These are (some of) artworks which have been meaningful to me. They're ones which haven't been shown in the other projects.
The reproductions have suffered over time - sadly the digital camera wasn't available. I have done my best to correct the colour, but had no control over the definition.
Galena
Oil on Aluminium - 1200mm x 1200mm
The Embrace
Charcoal Drawing
Fruit Bowl
Perth Galleries asked artists to decorate a bowl.
Eucalypt Series 1
Oil on Ink Washed Canvas
Eucalypt Series 2
Oil on Ink Washed Canvas
Oil on Ink Washed Canvas
Afterburn
This is one of two paintings which came to me after driving through bushland still smouldering from a recent bushfire in late summer. Though it was shocking seeing the burnt trees and shrubs, the images were still dramatic from an artists perspective.
Scumbled acrylic on prepared board
Strathgordon, Tasmania - 1980
Pastel drawing
Ferguson Valley - somewhere!
Oil on canvas painting
These 2 paintings were done after a 5 week stay in Olmet just out of Lodeve in the South of France.
The Hill viewed from Olmet
Oil on canvas
Village Talk
Oil on canvas
The Breakaways, Mount Magnet (north of Perth WA)
Watercolour
From Geordie Bay, Rottnest, WA
Watercolour
Rottest Landscape
Gouache Drawing
Philodendron
This painting - oil on board, was a study or exercise in painting on a coloured ground. I chose what I now consider the most difficult colour - yellow. The lesson learned was about complimentary contrast and what appears to be green is in fact a blueish yellow. It proved to be the most difficult painting I have ever done.
Marg's Hat
Acrylic on board
This is really a portrait of my twin Marg - who at the time was living in New Guinea. The hat, chair and cushion were some of her belongings left for me to mind. It could have been called a stilllife but it is also a valid portrait of someone not present. The work is now owned by another twin, As happens many times a work seems to find the right home.
Green Onyx
This work is acrylic on a prepared textured board. The paint is scumbled across the surface to get the blending of colours. A slate floor was the inspiration for this work
Augusta - Blackwood River Estuary
Acrylic on board
Mandurah Estuary, WA
Watercolour
The Warrior
I include this work because it was the first digital image I did - in 1995 - bitmap as I was using a very old Mac. It reminds me that 2D artwork is really about images - defining it by the technique is misleading. Images come from our imagination even if they started life from an external source.
Bitmap digital image - 1995