The Return of the blog!

Joy with my Character Mr Shapes I painted on the Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne in 2006.

I realised today that it has been nearly 8 months since I made a blog post. Now that I have been living in Melbourne since January this year I will endeavour to get up to date with new posts high lighting the artistic activities of the previous half of 2013.

Boats on the Brisbane River

I painted this picture last Saturday from a bank on the Brisbane Botanical Gardens. It was a pretty windy day so I expressed that in the palm tree on the right.

Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 70cm. Click image for a better view.

Pink Queenslander

Acrylic on Canvas, 70 x 50cm, Click on the image for a larger view.

The Blind Guitarist

This is an old painting my friend has of a blind guitarist busking along Swanston St in Melbourne, painted in 2007. I like the fresh and loose approach to applying the paint which I am aiming to revisit in my paintings of Australian landscapes.

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Mangroves

This painting of Mangroves along the Brisbane River at the City Botanical Gardens is the first picture of a new body of work I am creating about the Australian Landscape. I was able to enjoy listening to trumpet and bag pipe music coming from boats moored along the river whilst I painted. The darker tones in this artwork suited the over cast feel of the day as the wind and rain began come in during its completion.

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My Old TSB on Elizabeth St.

Yesterday while walking through Brisbane city I was happy to see that one of my old traffic signal boxes was still up on the corner of  Elizabeth and Albert St. This painting is a self portrait of me looking out of my studio window over the city in 2005.

Campbell Newman With My TSB

The Courier Mail published a picture of Campbell Newman walking past one of my Traffic Signal Box artworks in Ashgrove on the 23rd of Oct. I do believe they used the question mark in the artwork strategically for this Article.