8th December 2021 24’ x36’ (60.9 cm x 91.4cm) Acrylic on canvas $750.00 Went to Brisbane to see Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol at QPAC. We arrived early so walked to the museum and visited the whales. Beautiful colours of Shannon Novak's work, now behind the whales. The sky was stormy and the riverside skyline juxtaposed the ever present trees. The play was amazing. I loved the swirl of the snow.
31st December 2021 24’ x36’ (60.9 cm x 91.4cm) Acrylic on canvas $750 Thoughts about the 2021 swimming around my head - bushfires, pandemic, shortages. It all seems quite dystopian, some of the images were too disturbing. I've covered them with clouds referencing Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." I remember the days when we used to be able to jump on a plane just to go on holiday - "I really don't know clouds at all."
17th December 2021 24’ x36’ (60.9 cm x 91.4cm) Acrylic on canvas $750.00 My happy place – on the veranda – the easel set up and painting “8th December 2021”. Our Cocker spaniel, Tigger dozing in the heat with the agapanthus in full bloom in the garden below and listening to podcasts, who should fly down but a local king parrot. “Rex” was talkative and answered several questions in typical tweets, bobbing around as flew from easel to table. Perfect!
Long Hot Summer Acrylic on Canvas 75cm x 100cm $750 plus postage and handling “I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.” — Vincent van Gogh
Long Hot Summer Acrylic on Canvas 75cm x 100cm detail
Kondalilla Falls Acrylic on Canvas 92 cm x 46 cm $500 plus postage and handling
Valley of Diamonds - Crows Nest Acrylic on Canvas 92 cm x 46 cm $500 plus postage and handling
The secret belief 2016 18’ x 36’ (45cm x 91.4cm) Acrylic on canvas “The pebble in the brook secretly believes itself to be a precious stone.” Traditional Japanese saying. SOLD
Eopsaltria australis 2017 24’ x 36’ (60.9 cm x 91.4cm) Acrylic on canvas $750 SOLD plus postage and handling ”Both sexes are similar in plumage colour and pattern. Both parents, and sometimes some other helpers, care for the young birds”
$750 plus postage and handling Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, KINDNESS in another’s trouble, COURAGE in your own." Ye Wearie Wayfarer hys Ballad in Eight Fyttes Fyttes VIII Finis Exoptatus (A Metaphysical Song) Ye Wearie Wayfarer by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870)
Pebbles and Eucalyptus Leaves 30 cm x 30 cm x 5 cm Prisma colour on gesso board $150 plus postage and handling
The Pebble 2017 24’ x 36’ (60.9 cm x 91.4cm) Acrylic on canvas $750 SOLD plus postage and handling “Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.” Victor Webster - Actor quoted in 2016 Security Report Checkpoint Software Technologies Ltd 2016