A selection of images from the Broken Ground sequence. Most of these works were painted during my stint as Artist in Residence at Ballarat University in 2010. In the post-mining landscape of the Goldfields region surrounding Ballarat little remains of the buildings and mechanism involved in the Victorian gold rush. The evidence for the dramatic upheaval … More Broken Ground
The rhythm of walking through the bush: footfalls, the way the trees appear and disappear as I pass, and how the light changes, is like having a stream of music playing in my head. There is a strong rhythmic element in many of my paintings for that reason. The title is taken from Lines Written … More A thousand blended notes
A selection of images from the exhibition. All paintings are oil on linen on wood 9 x 12 cm “Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city’, for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as … More Walking the Ballarat Lanes
After the Fire 2006 acrylic on linen 82 x 102 cm One of the first paintings I made when I moved to Australia. Bushfires had recently swept through the Brisbane Ranges west of Melbourne and the roads had only just re-opened when I went out there. The silence was the first thing that struck me. … More After the Fire
Reef V 2014 acrylic on linen 82 x 82 cm I recently spent some time in Fiji, trekking in the forest and hills, and wandering along the coast. Many of the people I met lived directly from the land and the sea: gardening, hunting, gathering and fishing.
art about place 