How it happened. I’d met Alex at the Artist Store in Katoomba as he has set up a business Cutters making quality stretchers. I was needing some canvases, he was a friendly guy, the canvases I ordered were good and we chatted. He had a request. He wanted to do interviews with artists. Would I be interested. I said yes,… Read More »Chatting with Alex in the studio
I think I feel more comfortable in the visual world than in the spoken world. Teaching gave me enough skills to be able to feel comfortable speaking ‘off the cuff’ so when it was decided a video was a good idea I thought I’d be blase enough to share it here. So, warts and all, here it is. Interested? Hit… Read More »Not easy having a chat about yourself.
Ancient history is fascinating. I studied the subject in high school and was hooked. As I’m hooked on people’s stories of today. Their lives are quite wonderful. And I love how most times past life experiences indicate how they operate in the present. I reckon this particularly applies to artists and their practice. As it is with me and, if… Read More »Ancient history can be fascinating
I’ve been missing. I haven’t gone, I’ve been here painting. Really enjoying myself actually. Having a lovely time grabbing canvases and putting them on the studio wall and having a conversation with them one by one to create a collection of paintings. I have done 10 paintings in all. Most large, that is 120cm x 100cm or 100cm x 90cm… Read More »Enjoying painting so much I neglected my webpage .. or maybe just slack
Every painting has a story of it’s creation. This painting is 62cm x 70cm. Not very big but a painting with a lovely quiet presence. It’s a satisfying result to some quiet introspective days in the studio. I gave this painting the title ’Tuesday on my Mind’ for no other reason than I finished the painting on a Tuesday. And… Read More »Tuesday on my Mind
From Where I Stand I originally named this painting ‘All the Same – it’s Not’ Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 90cm Sometimes a painting just doesn’t ‘sit right’ when you originally think it’s finished. It’s ok, it passes muster but ultimately it’s not quite right. That was how this painting was sitting with me. So I ignored it for awhile.… Read More »From Where I Stand
Every artist approaches the painting process differently. I hadn’t really thought about my process too much, I just went ahead and painted. But I got to thinking and realise as a colourist and looking at what I do and the how I go about it all, my painting process may not necessarily be what people may assume it is. I… Read More »I ask myself … how do I paint?
It starts off full of promise when I have a fresh canvas on the wall in the studio. After a period of time I realise this painting doesn’t seem to be fulfilling it’s potential. The painting demands consideration and work to explain what it was like for me sitting in the bush out from Tablelands Road was all about. I… Read More »It starts off full of promise.
I explain to myself, and to other people who ask, that as an artist I’m a process artist. Painting for me is a marvellous journey of communication and discovery that on it’s completion will be a well resolved painting. A well resolved painting that allows the viewer to enjoy staying within the painting visually even if they’re not sure what… Read More »There I was so smug to think it was finished
I think as artists we need to remember ‘one of an artist’s chief obligations is to take risks’ and is the antidote to the problem of disappearing down the rabbit hole. Castaway article about Warwick Thornton by Tim Elliott Good Weekend magazine May 23 2020 I put a sheet of paper on the studio wall quite awhile ago, 61cm x… Read More »I call it ‘going down the rabbit hole’
