New Winter Omen

“New Winter Omen” 2019 152 x 76 cm Acrylic and enamel on canvas It feels like we are sitting here quite casually,  talking about climate change, global warming, big city pollution, the calamity ahead, but the juggernaut is rattling on mercilessly destructive and unstoppable – our stewardship…

Watch Dog

AUTUMN PLAY

“Autumn Play” Mixed media on paper laid down on board. Exhibited at the Belconnen Arts Centre in the “Traces 2” exhibition – two were sold. LEAVES AND STRANGERS Watching the everyday parade from a park bench in Canterbury, Melbourne. A place from my past were winds spoke in tongues and rogues looted cooly. Mothers and daughters, son’s and lovers, exiles and outcasts, file past the old…

UNCERTAIN JOURNEYS

Today was bump in for my exhibition “Uncertain Journeys”. The image of the boat has been a recurring theme in my painting for three years. Imagining the claustrophobic hull – the hell of uncertainty. The forced migration of people is a defining aspect of the times and the “illegal” journey to Australia by boat is now part of our modern mythology. I worked night…