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Falling Mist This painting started as a play on the idea of mist falling using a sort of progressive falling and disintegration of images. It also invokes the idea of a theatrical curtain similar to lowering mist. I'ts very simple and lyrical - the bush in a quiet and intimate mood. Seminyak Silver The idea of a silver beach is a cliche invoking white sand and bright light. I've found that a beach looks more like true silver metal when the sand is a darker volcanic grey and the light is a lot less intense. I've also painted this particular beach as Turquoise and as Jade. This painting is a sort of reconstruction from collaged realist sources - it can even be turned upside down for a different effect! Time And Again This is like a quantum view - a subject that can still be conveyed fairly clearly with multiple concurrent and mirroring viewpoints. Cubism did it by destroying traditional space but this painting creates a space which still seems real - sort of quantum metaphysics. I'd like to do more in this direction as it's still a bit of a mystery to me." Lake Memories Beside a holy lake in the grounds of a temple I found huge reticulated pythons sleeping in a glass-topped box with the reflection of the trees interacting with the sunlit patterns of their skin. It was such a hypnotic image which also invoked the story of Genesis and the Expulsion (ancient painting themes) that I had to see what I could do with it." Parallels I have often used the duality of the reflection and the reflected as a subject of paintings. This painting explores the idea that even when I try to destroy this duality (by painting only the reflection as the reflected) I am still left with it because no two brush marks can be identical - above is still different from below - parallel is never quite parallel." Squared Water I The 2 Squared Water paintings while being studies of a moment in time are also studies in symmetry and randomness. They have been carefully constructed from heavily edited photographs, but they also rely on totally unpredictable effects produced by the interaction of glazes and large calligraphic brushes." Squared Water II The 2 Squared Water paintings while being studies of a moment in time are also studies in symmetry and randomness. They have been carefully constructed from heavily edited photographs, but they also rely on totally unpredictable effects produced by the interaction of glazes and large calligraphic brushes." Woolwich Water Many of my paintings, particularly the water surface studies, are about the interaction of different layers with each other. These layers are mainly produced not from the water itself but from the elements outside the painting - in this case, the sky, the buildings and the wind. With water the subject is often Emptiness." Longueville Water Painting water is about painting layers - if you can see and understand the external atmosphere of the painting you can see the reason for each layer. For example the pale green layer is caused by sunlight filtering into the depths and the cream coloured calligraphic marks are cloud reflections. Each layer of marks has a reason although it looks like an abstraction." Gateway From a series of paintings I've done over the years where the subject is what's at my feet. Often, as with this one, the centre of the composition is empty. The gap between the stones gives a symmetry to an otherwise informal arrangement." Collins Beach - A Break In The Drought A noisy trickle of water from the previous night's rain marks an end to a long drought. A small ray of hope on a once-pristine beach - this is where Capt. Philip was speared for interfering with the locals dividing up a beached whale in May 1790." Long Reef - Last Light Long Reef is the only non-sandstone headland I know in the Sydney area coastline. The soft red earth stone it's made from stains the local beaches with its erosion and its reflections - especially at sunset. This painting needed dramatic water effects to match the dramatic colours." Rise And Fall - Balmoral Nocturne Full moon rising and light rain falling with a strange sort of empty calmness between ... This is a record of a dramatically different night on a very familiar beach." The Island - Late Winter IslandAutumnLowTide Turquoise Summer I The two Turquoise Summer paintings are realist memories of brilliant sunshine clear water and intense colours from a January trip down the coast from Sydney." Turquoise Summer II The two Turquoise Summer paintings are realist memories of brilliant sunshine clear water and intense colours from a January trip down the coast from Sydney." Littoral Shadows A study in contrasts - colour, texture, shade and movement. This is from a beach on Philip Island in Victoria. I sort of stumbled on the way to paint the shallow water effects and that always makes a painting more enjoyable. " Badangi Afternoon Badangi Reserve and Berry's Island are the arms encircling a small cove on Sydney Harbour. I painted each from the focus point of the other (one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This was from the beach shown in "Berry's Island - Morning"." Berrys Island Morning Badangi Reserve and Berry's Island are the arms encircling a small cove on Sydney Harbour. I painted each from the focus point of the other (one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This was from the point at the end of the rocks shown in "Badangi - Afternoon"" Berry's Bay After Fire The bush after fire is always more spacious and full of contrasts - this was painted on an early summer afternoon after a spring burn-off. The subject is mainly the contrast between the blue-purple contre-jour haze to the west and the dry burnt silhouetted foreground." Bush Study After Rain I was lucky enough to have a picnic-shed as shelter on this painting trip and was able to spend time studying the rich wet colours of the wattles and wet grass." Cockatoos At Fairview This subject of this painting was about a kilometre away down a long valley. I had to invent details from textural effects rather than copy what I saw." Blue Gums And Sandstone Because the colour contrast between these gums in shadow and the sunlit cliffs only existed for an hour or so each afternoon I had to work on this painting on 2 consecutive days as I returned to my campsite from working elsewhere. It's the sort of subject that photographs never capture because exposure never shows the shadows and sunlit areas evenly." Badangi Painted on a very grey day - it's strange how in that light all your paint colours look much stronger on site because your eyes are so used to the dimness. When I got this one back to the studio I had to strengthen the colour a lot." Edwards Beach - Morning These two Edward's Beach paintings are very simple studies from a day on a beach that I've painted many times, although rarely on site. They were painted a very short distance from each other and are much looser than most of my other work from there." EdwardsBeachAfternoon These two Edward's Beach paintings are very simple studies from a day on a beach that I've painted many times, although rarely on site. They were painted a very short distance from each other and are much looser than most of my other work from there."

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