Category Archives: art process

a landscape with trees

I was just looking back at watercolour and ink drawings in the Adelaide Hills and was struck by the image being about the spaces between branches, as a tracery and about curved marks.  

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Bonython’s view

This is a large oil on linen I did while resident in Adelaide and was sold as part of my Exhibition there. It is on a shaped form designed to mimic undulations and challenge the flat rectangle. it also runs … Continue reading

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5 figs

I worked this up in inks on canvas, adding gesso, and working the wet surface.  Lovely colours, enhanced with a damar glaze.  

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Winged victory goes rowing

I had a request for a proposed logo for my rowing club.  The theme was winged victory so I looked to the Louvre’s Winged Victory (the Nike of Samothrace)  and images of Kim Brennan carrying a single: At the Louvre, she … Continue reading

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