Category Archives: shaped canvas

Canola fields

I have been working on a canvas based on drawing of the landscape I did a few years back on a trip from Adelaide to Melbourne near the SA border with Victoria.  The canvas is stretched over a form which … Continue reading

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Bicheno going on

I have been developing a painting from a drawing/watercolour of Bicheno.  This is taking some time.  To start: see the cross hatched area below the blue circle later, the  built surface was touched with colour and viewing it diagonally to … Continue reading

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Not quite to the finish line…

I was working on a painting based on horse race finish photos last year and posted suggesting nearly done.  I have since reworked it twice and am still going.  The changes were dramatic and I am still unsatisfied so to set them … Continue reading

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A transcription

In 2004/5 I started to work  on a series of paintings – transcriptions from woodblock prints by artists such as Utamaro, usually of bijinga or “beautiful women”.  I took a snap of one such painting when I saw it again in Adelaide … Continue reading

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