Friday 4 May 2012

Paintings -- Redhead

The dramatic beauty of the Redhead / Dudley beach area:  clean sandy beaches, and dramatic rocky cliffs. 
   Redhead Beach. 

Another magnificent stretch of beach along the Newcastle coast-line. 

 

 War Memorial.  Dudley Beach
 


Road to Redhead.






Beach Tower at Redhead


 

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Paintings - Season: Spring







With the arrival of Spring, the outlook is getting sunnier:

This is a park directly opposite St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst. After visiting a sick friend I was struck by the sunny nature of the park and its visitors.
















Bondi Beach is famous for its surf and sand. But the happiness of the visiting tourists and beach-goers is hopefully reflected in this cheery view of its nearbye buildings.





Tuesday 1 May 2012

Paintings - Season: Autumn

Winter was a pretty gloomy period and this seems to show in the works that I did then:



Platform 21 (2009)
Central Station is such a busy place, packed with people - yet the platform architecture still dominates the scene. The combined platforms plus people give the location an air of vitality (acrylic on canvas, 51 x 40 cm).








Sydney Harbour Bridge (2009)
In Sydney to see the opening of the MCA, and glimpsed the bridge through the sunny haze. It is a great sight to see - but so very hard to capture on canvas (acrylic on canvas, 51 x 40 cm)











Now that Spring is here, the world looks sunny and bright: