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Influences from a few sources and observations:
I lived and studied at Princeton, New Jersey, USA, for a year in 1982-3, and soon became fascinated with the NYC water towers and with the Amish Barns in Pennsylvania. Their visual massing and sculptural forms were very powerful. I had always had a fascination for Silos and the large grain towers at the railways collection points as I visited my father's farm in the Central West of NSW.
I have always had a very keen interest in miniature painting and Illuminated Manuscripts but significantly developed during my time living in Europe 2009-11.
Then earlier in the 1980's I met Anne Truitt at the NAS (National Art School, Sydney). As Anne Truitt (NYC Sculptor 1921-2004) was travelling around NSW she remarked to me, “In this light [here in Australia] where are the schools of artists who paint the landscape with great clarity? You must have many.” Anne thought the light here was so clear and everything was so defined that she expected to see lots of landscape painters with detailed subject matter in their paintings but as she visited the Museums, she did not notice any ‘landscape schools’ of this type. These observations always stayed with me.
My life as a painter started largely (I had done some painting previously) as a result of a series of illnesses which restricted my movements for some years after returning from Europe in 2011. Making sculptures was not a viable option.
Finally, I think these landscapes and still life works have a connection with my sculptures, particularly the more ‘architectural works’ which focus on the architectural massing of these forms and clear geometric relationships. Added to this is a strange metaphysical presence as the silos rise ‘independent’ of the landscape resulting in a dichotomy between the organic nature of the landscape and the geometric forms of the industrial complex's of the Silos.
Most all of these works are relatively small in keeping with the influences mentioned above.
All works are mixed media, Watercolour paint and watercolour pencil, Gouache, Acrylic and fine point pen on Watercolour Paper.