Author: Beebs
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Field Trip: New Mexico Studio 2019
In New Mexico, I went to Los Alamos where the atomic bomb was built, and then to the Trinity site, where the first atomic blast occurred. The Trinity site is only open for two days of the year. I took photos, scribbled and did drawings at whatever took my interest. Later, I went to a…
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Field Trip: Nagasaki (2019)
Another hotel room studio. Something appealing about the Shinto idea that just a rock can be sacred.
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Japan Studio 2019 Higashiyoshino, Yoshino-Gun, Kotsugawa
I was lucky enough to have the use of a studio, out of Nara, to work on paintings for my 2020 exhibition 101 Views of the Anthropocene. The studio belongs to Kuniko and Kazu. I went there after visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki researching the atomic bomb. The studio sits above the Takami River (Takami-Gama). In…
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Random Selection
This archive is still being built.However, in the meantime, here is a small random selection of work covering at least 20 years.
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On The Edge of A Beautiful World
These works were painted from field trips to salt lakes at two locations: the Murray-Sunset Park, in Northwestern Victoria, Country of the Latji Latji, Ngintait and Nyeri Nyeri Peoples; and the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia, land of the Adjahdura People. The salt lakes represent the extremities of experience. For me, they connect to life’s…
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Pink Lakes and Blue Skies
These paintings on canvas and on paper are a meditation on the harsh beauty of pink salt lakes and of the volatile wonder of blue sky. All works have concern for the future and hold within them the past: yet they are also about ‘being’ in its pure form, appreciating and accepting the present, and…
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Gibber Country
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Desert II
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Desert I
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Bushfire
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