Monday, 26 November 2012

Meet The Artist

Hello Fellow Art Lover


Welcome to my Blog page. I seem to have so much to share, and I am so glad that you have come (or arrived at) this page. It gives me an opportunity to introduce myself, and to show you my art items.



Tram Stop, Central Station.

I enjoy the journey into art and its production. My instructors at Newcastle Art School have been a tremendous inspiration and resource. The artists that I most admire are Van Gogh, Dufy and those who occupied the Artists' Camps during the founding years of Australian Impressionism.

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Paintings. Late-2012



                                         
Overpass, Donald Street, 2012, Acrylic on canvas  61 x 46 cm.
 

The Luggage Carrier, Hamilton Station, 2012, Acrylic on canvas  71 x 51 cm.
 
 
                
Sydney College of the Arts, 2012, Acrylic on canvas 71 x 51 cm.

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:



Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Prints

PRINTS

Silk Screen Prints (Serigraphs)



Cafe, Darlinghurst

There is a natural vitality about the inner-city suburbs: Carlton, Collingwood, Newtown and (here) Darlinghurst. We just seem to love a burst of being in a vibrant, busy scene where people meet people.




View to Vinyard, Yarra Valley







Wine is a drink of rich complexity, but it grows in simple surrounds: rows of grapes, rich earthy soil, and the right mix of sunshine and rain. A scene that is so nice to gaze at.