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.
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60x40cm 2020
Remembrance Day is many things to many people. For me, my families, my: father, great uncle, grandfathers, their wives, mothers and other family members, all in different ways. We have a rose, now more than 30 years old, forming strong canes with clusters of blood-red.
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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.
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60x40cm 2020
Our garden is a sanctuary for many different flora and fauna. They all co-exist. Mixing them in a collage is not difficult as in many places they all grow together. Descriptors include: a cacophony, a cottage garden, overgrown. The painting was made late winter with the brilliant deep blue of the Iris and the new succulent growth with the late glow of the day on the fern fronds.
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40x60cm 2020
It's October 2020. Lockdown continues and our October birthdays approach and another milestone home alone. The roses are blooming, flowers abound from our garden and from gifts. Albertine’s renovation is looking very successful and between birthdays a magpie lands on one of Albertine’s oldest canes (30 years old a gift from friends and still going strong). It must have loved its new lease of light!
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