A lot of the work in the February 2022 Exhibition at Aegean Designs Portsea deals with opposites. In these paintings, if a line is man-made and straight, I have curved it. An example of this is below. If a line is curved, which
Nina and I met at a friend’s daughter’s confirmation. She asked what I did, I said “I was an artist”. She thought I was joking and said “I’m an artist too”. She wasn’t far from the truth as she is an artist, there
If there is a rule in painting its there are no rules. You never stop learning. Learning can be fun. I’ve learnt what can work to make painting more fun. One of them is drawing. Drawing is important in painting and sculpture, etc. Artists have drawn to plan a painting
Looking back on my life as an artist I could have experimented more at art school, this is what fellow students did. For some reason my mind has been interested in opposites. You were a minority if you painted realistically. Thankfully most of the tutors were open to most forms
While bike riding to work and back each day I hope to inspire, remind and inform people how wonderful cycling is, bringing us closer to nature with paintings of cyclists or paintings related to riding. Continuing to be inspired by Cezanne’s paintings, a series of bike paintings were made. Riding
Once a week around this time, artist Don Ramsay and I painted along the Yarra. It was great to be outside surrounded by nature, you need to work quickly outside as light shadows and clouds etc change. The interest in Cezanne continued We also painted at Sorrento.
The next experiment was colour. Inspired by Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and other Fauve artists, I looked at how they could change the colour in what is seen and make it work in paintings. Derain L’Estaque Matisse Les toits de Collioure Shelly Beach Blairgowrie Beach Revisiting subjects I’d painted before,
Andre Derain’s London paintings are an inspiration! In 1906 it was suggested by Derain’s dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint the Thames area. Monet had painted wonderful works studying light, movement and abstraction of the area six years before. With Derain’s interest in colour, light and line, anything could happen and
While traveling to Queensland and Bali I was able to paint (focusing on Cezanne’s work) with a palette knife using acrylic paint on canvas. As the paint dried quickly, you can roll the painting up in between locations. Noosa Beach Seminyak Sunbathing Casa Luna Swimming Pool Ubud Ubud Paddies Seminyak
From the experiments of colour and open picture plane. The next focus was line. Line was introduced into the picture plane and filled with different colours but usually similar tones. Noosa River 20 x 30cm Noosa River 1 30 x 20cm Noosa River 2 20 x 30cm Noosa River 3 20
Hundertwasser was an artist and architect from Austria and later New Zealand. He was a pioneer of the sustainable movement, quoted in saying “Straight lines are godless“. He designed buildings to incorporate trees with city buildings, designing waste management systems, making his own clothes, growing plants on rooftops and many