This painting is a poignant one. This painting is for all warriors. There are warriors in our family amongst our many friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. There are warriors, past, present emerging, and future. There are warriors who we hear about and those who we don’t.
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40x40cm 2020
From a stop along the lake wall during a winter’s walk around the Lilydale lake we were able to view an approaching storm. We see, feel and hear storms and other effects in nature such as fire, flood, drought and wilful destruction of our environment. Perhaps like the fauna, and those who have been directly affected, we need to consider the “why is it so” in the incidence of the increasing variability and ferocity of nature’s actions.
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40x40cm 2020
Spring came early and with the flowering of the Kangaroo Paws came the wisteria blooms overnight falling making a new bed of compost for the next season. Nature feeding Nature. Something we can all learn from. The bright early morning spring light has cast the Wisteria blooms on the paving as fallen snow.
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40x40cm 2020
The dark early morning winter’s sky caught a flock of King Parrots feeding on the tips of the Pin Oak. Food is scarce after the fires and smoke damage so the birds are foraging where they can.
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40x40cm 2020
My birthday coincides with the blooming of our larger Orchids. My wife presented this Orchid cane full of blooms to me on my Birthday. This orchid lives under our Wisteria trees and is mostly left to its own ways. When it blooms it usually throws a number of canes full of beautiful flower. I painted this cane against a dark velvety backdrop to enhance the spirit of Spring’s renewal emerging after a dark Winter’s slumber.
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40x40cm 2020
Under the shadow of the mist, looking up through the tree, the early spring leaves on the pin oak were starting to thicken up. Looking up I could see a misty dampness on the new spring leaves. Like confetti, creating a ceiling of sparkling bubbles.
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40x60cm 2020
Walking down through our Powerful Own sanctuary towards our “Rainbow Trail”, so named by the chalk drawings made during our long winter lockdown by the many children on the pathways to the trail, our eyes were taken up to a flock of ducks in an old long dead tree. The tree with its top long blown out was being used as a resting spot for the ducks. Down below was a small seasonal lake that was also used by these casual visitors.
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40x40cm 2020
Walking through the Olinda Creek wetlands we came across a reed protecting billabong. The lone Ibis was hiding, resting, relaxing, looking for a feed perhaps waiting for a mate. The beauty of the ordinary is always around the corner, waiting, but mostly unsighted by human eyes.
