Modern australian art prints
The old St Pauls church at Castle Hill
circa 1850s
Saint Paul's church Castle Hill
with black border
Country show
Usually the highlight of the year
in country town NSW
Country show
with black border
Barrenjoey lighthouse
Historic lighthouse on
the northern
headland of Pittwater and the Hawkesbury River
Built in 1881 from sandstone quarried on the
site
Barrenjoey lighthouse
with black border
Bay window
When I first came to
Sydney I stayed at
a
1920s Art deco house in Chatswood
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Bay window with
black border
Blues point tower
Harry Seidler's iconic apartment
building at
Blues Point
Built in1962 it was the first
strata title
building in Sydney
With spectacular views of Sydney Harbour
a building of this size in such a prominent
position could not be built today.
Don't believe the naysayers, this
is a very
attractive
building and should be on wall of every house in
Australia
Blues Point tower
with black border
Boats on dam
Time lapse art covering the kids
playing with
boats
on the dam between 2 to 5 in the afternoon
Despite the onset of inclement
weather, the
number
of boats and kids increased over that period
Boats on the dam
with black border
Bowaters Rozelle
Industrial landscape
looking towards the city
Bowaters
with black border
Sydney's CBD 1
Add some colour to the CBD!
Why not?
CBD 1
with black border
Central station clock tower
Iconic to central Sydney is the
Central
Railway
Station clock tower lauding over Railway
Square
Added to Central Station in 1921,
the
85-metre Clock
Tower in the Free Classical style was part
of an expansion to Central Station by its
original designer, NSW Government Architect,
Walter Liberty Vernon.
Central railway station
clock tower with black border
Chess
Can be quite stressful as shown in
this
picture
A must for chess fanatics
Chess
with black border
Country kitchen
My wife's family farmhouse
With intricate detail at no extra cost
Country kitchen
with black border
Empress of Australia
Ships and ferries are so functional
-
nothing is useless or wasted.
Built in Australia it started the
Sydney
to Tasmania run in 1965
At that time the largest passenger
ferry in
the world
There's beauty in functionality
and the Wabi crack
Empress of Australia
with black border
A fine romance 1
Lester Ralph was the Norman
Rockwell of
"feel good" art in the early 20thC
Born in 1877 he travelled well and
studied
art in
a number of European cities including London.
These 12 paintings are called "a
fine romance"
covering friendship, engagement, marriage
and of course their first child
Dated 1916-1918
They were chums at school
They are partners at his college dance
They spend long afternoons at the river
She
wears
his ring
A fine romance 2
He takes her to the opera
They plight their troth
The day of days - they are married
The
honeymoon amongst the hills
A fine romance 3
They settle in their new home
They prepare for the big event
The baby draws them closer
Their
cup
of happiness is full
The trio in A2 for $100
Fishing boat
Something whimsical after the
Swiss-German artist Paul Klee
1879-1940
Fishing boat
with black border
Five bells
My take on Kenneth Slessor's
famous poem written in 1939
The definitive version is John
Olsen's
(1963) in the foyer of the Opera House.
Flag city
Inspired by my daughter's lego
flag city is the same lego
structure from four
different perspectives
Some wabi at no extra cost
Flag city
with black border
Garden of eden
People keep asking me
"what did the garden of eden look like?"
Thought the best answer was
to paint the garden of eden for
everybody to see
Garden of eden
with black border
Georgia in farm kitchen
Plenty of wabi
hereComplete with a
Canberra wood fuel stove
Georgia in farm kitchen
with black border
Georgia under orange tree
The farm had the world's best orange
tree near the back door.
So we would juice them when in
season Happy days!
Georgia under orange tree
with black border
Grandad's steam engine
The kid's grandad grew up on the
Moree wheatfields
His job as a child was to get up at 4am and
start the steam engines.
Therefore he was quite delighted
when I told him I
had discovered an old steam engine still in use
at a timber mill near Uralla.
He immediately went out there and
bought it
Towed it home with his tractor and set it
up for chaff cutting.
It was a Buffalo, a popular
American brand
at the end of the 19th C.
I had to paint it for posterity
Grandad' steam engine
with black border
Luke in greenhouse
Luke in greenhouse
Martian running
People would ask me what does a
martian running look like?
So I prepared this very expensive
diorama
to show what a martian running looks like
Martian running
with black border
Martians running
What's better than one martian running?
Two martians running!
Martians running
with black border
Outdoor furniture
Yep - those backyard table and
chairs
have been neglected in art far too long!
Outdoor furniture
with black border
Palm beach
First beach in my northern beaches
series
Barrenjoey lighthouse on the promontory
Palm beach
with black border
Pelican island
The kids enjoying the pelicans and
the island near The Entrance
Pelican island
with black border
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Pueblo village
with black border
The sleeping qypsy
Time for some Henri Rousseau
1844-1910
A French naive painter who painted a
numberof topical and jungle scenes.
This is one of the great paintings
of modern times
The desert is crackling with atmosphere
What will happen next?
Sleeping gypsy
with black border
Study window 1
My daughter put up a number of old
cds
to scare birds away from the fruit
This is the view from the west facing study window
Study window
with black border
Sydney harbour
Sydney harbour before the
developers took over
Full of interesting warehouses
Sydney harbour
with black border
Terrace house
I've always liked Cedric Flower's
whimsical
take on Sydney terrace houses
Terrace house after Cedric Flower
1920-2000
Terrace house
with black border
Typewriter
Typewriters don't feature much in
art
Yet this state of the art Facit was
king of typewriter design many
years ago
Typewriter
with black border
Verandah ornaments 1
When at the farm I went through a resin ornament phase
My front verandah was covered with
all sorts of resin
ornaments - gee it looked good!
Verandah ornaments 1
with black border
Verandah ornaments 2
Verandah ornaments
with black border
Verandah ornaments 3
Verandah ornaments 3
with black border
Verandah ornaments 4
Verandah ornaments 4
with black border
Verandah ornaments 5
Verandah ornaments 5
with black border
All 5 verandah ornaments for $150:
with black borders:
Wiseman's Ferry 1
Wiseman's Ferry is an attractive
village on the
Hawkebury River
I spent some time there and got to know it well
You can just see the statue of
Solomon in the centre
Fun thing to do!
Find the statue of Soloman
Wiseman's Ferry 1
with black border
Woman in greenhouse
Woman in greenhouse
with black border
Bilgola beach
Another in my northern beaches
series
Interesting beach with an ocean pool
under dramatic red ciffs
The beach has a single sand bar cut
by two shifting beach rips and permanent rips
against the rock faces at each end
Bilgola beach
with black border
Bungan beach
A single bar runs the length of the
beach
with two strong rips against the rocks
at either end
Two to three shifting rips
along the beach
Bungan beach
with black border
Carnaval - Rousseau
Time for another of Rousseau's
great naive paintings
Carnaval is full of atmosphere
See how important the small
black cloud is on the left
Take it away and the electrifying
atmosphere disappears!
Carnaval
with black border
Clare house - Oakville
Part of my series on historic buildings
in the Hawkesbury Shire
Built in 1828 and extended in 1835
Scarvell family were the original owners
Used as the Wonden Valley Hospital in
the
TV series in the 1980s; A country Practice
Clare house
with black border
Curl curl beach
Another in my series of North Shire
beaches
and one of Sydney's best surfing beaches
Surf averages 1.6m
Beach is 1.2 km long and is divided
into
North Curl Curl and South Curl Curl
On the south is shown a great rock
pool
Curl curl beach
with black border
Manly beach
Manly beach is a very popular
tourist
destination as the old Manly ferry can
take you there.
Very pleasant walks north to
Freshwater
and south to Shelly beach
The pine trees have become an iconic
symbol of Manly beach
Manly beach
with a black border
Narrabeen beach
Narrabeen beach is another great
surfing and
swimming beach on the north shore
It is over 3km long stretching from
Long Reef
on the south to Narrabeen lagoon on the north
There are four surf clubs along the beach
Narrabeen beach
with black border
Queenscliff beach
Situated at the northern end
of Manly beach - Queenscliff boasts
a popular ocean swimming pool
The buildings on the point enjoy
some of the best views in Sydney
Queenscliff beach
with black border
Settlers Inn - St Albans
1836
The Settlers Inn hotel is situated
on
the upper Macdonald river and is
one of the oldest hotels in the
Hawkesbury area
Great weekend destination for
lunches and parties
Settlers Inn
with black border
Sunshower over Shelly beach
The last in my northern beaches
series is
Shelly beach, the southern most beach
on the north shore
An advantage of plein
art is I was able
to capture a sunshower bursting over this
delightful beach
Sunshower over Shelly beach
with black border
Turimetta beach
Turimetta beach is a small 1km wide
embayment on the north shore of Sydney
The beach itself is 350m long
bordered by the
30m high Narrabeen head on the south
(bottom of picture)
Rock platforms and cliffs fill the
rest of the bay
Turimetta beach
with black border
Whale beach
Another in my series on North Shore
beaches
Shows their grand surf club at the
rear
Whale beach
with black border
Windsor court house 1821
Part of my series on historic
buildings
in Hawkesbury shire
Windsor court house
with black border
This is my definitive picture of
Wiseman's ferry
Painted on a high rock on the
mountain on the other side
I waited for the two ferries to
cross
The river at the top is MacDonald
river
flowing into the Hakesbury river
Wiseman's ferry
with black border
Wiseman's ferry - on the wild side 1
Add a bit of excitement and colour
to the base Wiseman's ferry picture
Wieman's ferry on the wild side 1
with black border
Wiseman's ferry on the wild side 2
Wiseman's ferry on the wild side 2
with black border
Vision over top paddock