Sunday, March 17, 2024

Visions From Underground

I'm thrilled to announce my latest show Visions from Underground at @ochredfern gallery opening on tuesday 18 March( a couple of days from now where I'll be hanging 50 or so paintingsfrom the past several years

 


Below are a few shots of some of the pictures on the wall asDune and I work out the hang. They'll all be moving around a bit yet

 
Julian Assange as well as the view from Watson's Bay and Looking along the railway tracks

 
Those railway tracks again, and Treees against raincouds -things that sold already

 
Light Industrial Sofa(bottom) and a couple of others

 
Govetts Leap with Watsons Bay


 
Angry Cars abd the Carpark next door

 
QVB and friends


Thursday, February 1, 2024

Stephen and Charles

Charles Freyberg with Stephen and Fred



 
 Now to get into the skintones, and fix wall colour so its less yellow








 I'm doing a portrait of Stephen and Charles, and Stephen's dog Fred, so I visited Stephen with Charles to do a bit of drawing and take some photos



McEvoy St. A warmup drawing


Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Funky Verandah and the old Comsteel plant

 
On a corner near Balmain Rd in Sydney's Leichhardt

 
In Waratah(Newcastle), seen from the Mater Hospital

 

Bird Drawings

 
Crow and Ibis. Prep drawings for a couple of paintings


 

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Ibises

In Victoria Park



 


 

Shapely weed


 

 preliminary drawing
 

 

a fig tree trunk

 

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Destruction of Gaza


 


The latest in an unbalanced ever escalating dance of death and destruction

 

 

Climbing Lily

 A painting I started while visiting Mum's in Newcastle over Christmas 


Along with the climbing lily there's a bit of gardenia




Saturday, December 2, 2023

Crow

A crow and a pair of lorikeets in the garden at Robert's in Concord, where I was staying until recently
 

 
  
 


 


 

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Waiting Rooms

 
Leichhardt centrelink

 
Waiting for a train at central

 

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Eyeball Villa

 
A building in Five Dock


 

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Conman in Congress

 Everyman abroad in the age of fake news


 


 

Wearing glasses to hide the eyes



Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Lorikeet Sumo

 


 I'm painting birds for a show hopefully early next year(2024)


 


 


 


Rainbow Lorikeets are little boofheads who love bouncing around in each others faces. Here's 2 competing in a tournament over the sunflower seeds