Category Archives: musicians

a portrait in stages

Posted on 9 September 2011 by sgolding

This is a series of images of a preparatory painting I did for my 2011 archibald entry, of the Flinders Quartet.  It is a smaller oil, only about 50 cm by 90cm worked up from drawings to test ideas.  I … Continue reading →

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the paper Tardis

Posted on 23 August 2011 by sgolding

happened to take me back to Adelaide in 2004, when I opened a sketchbook in my collection of drawings a person in the crowd at a writers week talk…                       … Continue reading →

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the swinging baton….

Posted on 31 July 2011 by sgolding

Elizabeth sang with the Victoria Chorale for a few years and I watched and listened to performances with sketch book in hand, pencil gliding in something not quite resembling the beat across the pages.  Val Pyers was the conductor, a facinating charismatic presence … Continue reading →

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