Two Trees
Golden Mafa Arabesque
Balls Head to Blues Point Tower
This is a plein air painting made a Birchgrove on Sydney Harbour. The Blues Point Tower is seen by many as an eyesore because of it’s somewhat arrogant and intrusive location on one of Sydney’s beautiful headlands but I like it’s simple Modernist lines and colour. It, like the Harbour Bridge behind it, is a part of our history.
Towards Wedding Cake Island
This is looking south towards Coogee from Clovelly when the waves were huge and the sea was churning
Washerwoman Beach, Bendalong
Bendalong is a place I have to return to on a regular basis.
All my changes were there. – Neil Young.
Mangroves
Young Mangroves on the Queensland coast – plein air.
Goldsmiths Island
A little plein air painting made on an uninhabited island off the Queensland coast looking towards the Whitsunday Islands.
Mafra Arabesque
Coogee Swimmers
After an early morning swim looking into the glare of an overcast sky.
Afternoon Shorebreak at Scarborough
I’ve been asked why so many of these pictures have the vertical and horizontal drips running through them. Firstly, it’s a pictorial device, it makes the work more interesting to me and allows me to introduce more colour. I often paint from my photographs but I’m not trying to paint my photographs. On another level, it allows me to suggest the forces that bring about change in a landscape- water, gravity and heat over time. Everything is in a state of flux, nothing remains the same and anyone who goes to a beach on a regular basis can’t help but notice.
Rhett Brewer - Artist 