Category: Current Gallery

Odysseus’s ten-year journey from battle-ravaged Troy to his home in Ithaca has long been a metaphor for the trials of life. Grief or trauma, of any kind, a brush with death, can focus one’s attention. For me, this occurred recently. In Life’s Odyssey: Painting and Sculpture, I paint through the shifting emotions to come up…

It has been said that the first atomic bomb, detonated at the Trinity site near Alamogordo in New Mexico on the 16th July, 1945 at 5.29 am, could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene. That first bomb, and those that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of that year, were created over 200…

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…

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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