recent paintings

New works from 2011, plus a couple from 2010 to make up the numbers

new paintings

paintings: 2010

Hurry! Make the documentaries, pictures, songs and plays;
build the websites, teach the children,
record the Last of Her Tribe, the Changing Landscape, the Final Phrases of a dying language.
When all is gone and, alarmed, we feel our identity slipping away we can go to our archive.
Build a Faithful Reconstruction with Interpretation Panels and Interactive Displays.
Say: Look! This is how it used to be.
This was the world our forefathers knew.
Visitors will complain about prices in the restaurant and remember having to walk from the car park.
The new world.

paintings: 2010

People and Places

Paintings created between 2004-2008 for various exhibitions. Many are based on old family photographs. In 2010 these paintings formed a touring exhibition with Tasmanian Regional Arts, showing in regional galleries around Tasmania.

people and places

Unease in the Foliage

A world where all is not what it seems. Is it a Rainforest Theme Park where eco-tourists come to gape at the Last Tree, supported by complex technologies to keep it alive, surrounded by Faithful Recreations of a Real Forest Environment? Or is it a world where nature has triumphed, growing over and obscuring - or perhaps supporting - the works of man?
You can choose which world you want to live in.
These paintings formed part of the inaugural exhibition at the Foreshore Gallery, Rosny Park in 2009.

landscape with attitude (external site)

Etchings

From time to time I have dabbled with printmaking. Etching is fun; I love playing with horrible chemicals and gouging into pieces of metal. Unfortunately, printing the result is not nearly so much fun.
I have divided my etchings into three galleries, because they comprise three distinct sets of subject matter - a few social comments; angels and elephants; toys.

etchings

Twentieth Century Arts

These paintings were all done prior to 1990, and this is the first website I built. It's been on-line since 2005 and I don't see any reason to change it.

seriously weird paintings (external site)

Tasmanian Ironbark

When I returned to Tasmania after several years' absence I was struck by the proliferation of towers all over the landscape. A bushwalking acquaintance said they called them "Tasmanian Ironbark". A strange form of reforestation indeed.

Tasmanian Ironbark (external site)