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Ghost Van of Capertee,  31cm  x 41cm, watercolour on paper, 2025

It was the link for so many people, between one stage of their lives,  and the next. It was sometimes a happy occasion,  and sometimes a disappointment.  Many of those people have passed, and some are still living.  The old van won’t be moving people now.  It sits beside a shed and waits for rust, lichen, and the weather to take it back to the earth.

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Afternoon Storm Clouds, Point Pilcher, 61cm x 122cm, acrylic on linen, 2024– sold

This is my studio version of my earlier plein air work from an earlier post on this website. My studio paintings are more detailed and refined than my plein air works which are recorded quickly and expressively, but they are usually more imaginative and inventive too. I work from my photos but I always stray away from the photo-mechanical image of the photo and into a more interior space. I think this is a good example of what happens when I’m in a comfortable, controlled environment, with good appropriate music, lots of breaks and time to think.