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 with something on the canvas that expresses human transformation in times of turbulence. We all get knocked about by life at some stage. This exhibitionis a depiction of the attempt to find beauty as we travel through the suffering of this world— through this turgid mortal coil. The works, painting and sculpture, each speak to the unknown: trouble on the high seas, the call of the sirens, and sailing through the fog of life’s difficulties.
Gary Christian
Life’s Odyssey: Painting and Sculpture
Opening 3rd May 4-6pm
Whitewall Art Projects
Shop3 13 Old Hume Hwy Berrima

Sailing Home – Big wave
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,300
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Sailing Home – into the storm
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,300
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Sailing Home – on the high sea
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,300
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and the tide is high
120 x 150 cm
paint pencil and pastel on torn paper stretched on canvas
AU$7,000
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The distant call of the Sirens III
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on washi paper framed
AU$4,500
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And the Sirens sing II
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,300
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And the Sirens sing III
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,300
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And the Sirens sing IV
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,300
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The distant call of the Sirens I
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,600
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The distant call of the Sirens II
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,600
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And the Sirens sing I
70 x 70 cm
paint pencil and pastel on paper stretched on canvas
AU$3,300
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The song of the Sirens
120 x 150 cm
paint pencil and pastel on torn paper stretched on canvas
AU$7,000
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