We live on the East of a hill side so rarely see any sunset colour During Spring we had a number of days with number high wind leading to much damage in our township. We also experienced and thunderstorms, interspersed with “red sky at night, shepherds delight” sunsets. Yet these sunsets have been seen before increasingly angry storms. This painting has been foregrounded by home and a magnificent Mahogany Gumtree. Climate change is with us we see increasingly more ferocious storms in our region.
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40x60cm 2020
The early Spring sun was glowing into the east facing garden. Its amazing when you are watching nature, she can show here glowing beauty, just to remind us of the possibilities if we look after the land. The ferns in the front yard are all self-sown and are now 30+years old. There is nothing average about the weather and our gardens have managed through drought, rain, storms, bushfire smoke and ash, high winds, the occasional freezing morning and the even less frequent drop of snow. We do maintain them, feed and when necessary water them. And we are rewarded.
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40x60cm 2020
The two works were painted in different colourways. The first on a cheery, sunny early spring morning. The second on clear, but cold Spring morning.
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40x60cm 2020
The two works were painted in different colourways. The first on a cheery, sunny early spring morning. The second on clear, but cold Spring morning.
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40x60cm 2020
Birthday lockdown was a walk along the Olinda Creek trail, through the wetlands westward to the horse yard. We stopped by the farm and watched the animals in the light drizzle.
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40x60cm 2020
Spring 2020 was cold. One cold November afternoon a couple of Kookaburra’s landed on the clothesline as they are often doing. The frozen line is juxtaposed against the warm colours of the clothes pegs has made for a humorous image...if only climate change did not have such serious connotations to all living things.
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40x60cm 2020
We are blessed with the native birds that frequent our property and flit in and out of both native and exotic plants. The parrots, especially the rosellas love eating from the red/white salvia in our yard outside my studio window. I painted this rosella with an orange touch as a nod to nature’s infinite variability.
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40x40cm 2020
This work was influenced by artists contemporary and not so who painted on dark velvet fabric. This painting is 1 of two. The second one is painted on a contemporary newspaper page.