Envelope Series ...

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Everything is literary  Watercolour 21x 29.7cm  

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The scent of lavender  Watercolour 21 x 29.7cm

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Secrets  Watercolour 21x 29.7cm 

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Sediments  Watercolour and collage 21 x 29.7cm

I have been working on these over a period of time. Nor are they are in the order that I painted them.  And, there may be more to come.  Initially I was looking at Paul Klee's watercolours and his grids of beautiful colour, how he combined various secondary and complimentary colours. From his work I became interested in how if you added only the merest detail it motivates the reading.

Out of the Morning Light

Watercolour 29.7 x 21cm

Strata

Watercolour and Collage 29.7 x 21cm

Watched the Chasers excellent TV show on the War on Waste and was reminded that plastic doesn't break down.

So here are my imaginings of an archeological dig with layers of plastics.

I realise that this is probably a very didactic piece of work.

Actually, the plastic came as an afterthought.  Initially I was thinking about sediments and layers which occur with everything: language, culture, as we build from one thing/thought to another.

In adding the plastic I have narrowed the connotations.

Silent Music

Watercolour 

Ranges

Gouache 21 x 29.7

Palms

Watercolour 29.7 x 21cm

My chief concern with this work was the design of the leaves.

We have a potted palm in the studio and someone picked a couple of leaves and stuck them in a vase.

There was my initial inspiration.

Rag ends of memory

Watercolour 22.8 x 30.5cm

Memory

Watercolour 15 x 10cm

This is a work from the imagination.

I am probably stating the obvious here, but memory is very illusive, a type of reconstruction and not always 'real' although it may feel 'real' or 'true' to the person at the time.   We know that ourselves are made up of cells which are constantly renewed so we are not a constant fixed entity that the word 'self' implies.  Is memory like Chinese whispers?

Requiem

Watercolour & Ink 14 x 18cm

Landmarks

Watercolour and Ink 18 x 14cm

This is a little sketch I did using the end of a wooden paint brush handle sharpened to a chisel point.  I find that by twisting the handle I get different marks.

Where land meets the sky

Watercolour 297 x 210cm

Inspired by the Pearl Beach, Central Coast.

Shark Net

Watercolour 22.8 x 30.5

The source of my inspiration for this painting is the lovely Nielsen Park.