Winged Victory of the Muirhead

Posted on 7 December 2017 by sgolding

I had a lovely experience at the Muirhead Physics Museum at Melbourne University Yesterday.  the opening  was gracious and I enjoyed seeing a work of mine made into decal on windows, resembling stained glass.

A little watercolour writ large

 

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Karst formations on the Li River

Posted on 28 November 2017 by sgolding

In 2008 I travelled to China and took a boat up the Li River.  I painted in pen and ink on the way, much to the amazement of fellow tourists.  The   images adopt elements of the landscape aesthetic of sumi-e painting, probably unconsciously:

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a landscape with trees

Posted on 20 November 2017 by sgolding

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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A bronze in Florence

Posted on 30 October 2017 by sgolding

A little travel sketch of a patinated bronze in Florence in 2002, in ink, wash and watercolour.

 

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