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The old St Pauls church at Castle Hill
circa 1850s
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Country show
Usually the highlight of the year
in country town NSW
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Bay window
When I first came to Sydney I stayed at
a 1920s Art deco house in Chatswood
Typically they had bay windows
This was my bay window together with
paraphernalia typical of the artist
as a young man!
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Chess
Can be quite stressful as shown in this picture
A must for chess fanatics
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fishing boat
Something whimsical after the
Swiss-German artist Paul Klee
1879-1940
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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.
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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
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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
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Luke in greenhouse
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Outdoor furniture
Yep - those backyard table and chairs
have been neglected in art far too long!
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Pueblo village
Love the way the Pueblo indians carved their
dwellings into red sandstone cliff faces.
About 600 cliff face dwellings have
national heritage protection in
Mesa Verde Colorado.
Necessity equals functional architecture
and functional architecture is beautiful architecture
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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?
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Typewriter
Typewriters don't feature much in art
Yet this state of the art Facit was
king of typewriter design many
years ago
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Woman in greenhouse
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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!
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Spirit of the 40s
Based on a Saturday Evening Post
advertisement fo the good life and
hope in the 194os
Plenty of Wabi in this one
.Shelf artifacts 1
.Another temporal image
Light falling on bright
translucent objects at
different times of the day
Shelf artifacts 2
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Harbour bridge 1
Things to do with discarded
plastic wrappings
Easter egg case magically turned into a night light
