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Caiwarro - sunlit tree
2008
I noticed the western sun
light up a small tree opposite our Caiwarro camp. The
overhanging limbs, their reflections and the framing trunks
beside me created a mandala-like effect.
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Cameron's Corner windmill
2008
This fallen windmill is a
poignant reminder of hard times on the land. The symbols
along the lower edge of the canvas were borrowed from a
series of paintings I produced during the 1993 drought. When
I named the exhibition I remembered that when she was tiny
my daughter’s name for a windmill was “round’n’round’n”.
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Clifton Harvest
2008
Coongie - full moon 2
2008
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Coongie - full moon 2
2008
At
Coongie, “magical lagoons lie nestled amongst
brick-red sand dunes…” (Sarah Murgatroyd - The
Dig Tree). We were lucky to be there on the
night of the full moon, first an enormous globe,
rising fast and casting a stream of light over
the lake.
Coongie - road in
2008
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Cullyamurra pelicans
2008
The pelicans were never still. Now
far, now near, now off to fish
elsewhere. These three small images
took shape in my head while camped
at Cullyamurra in 2007.
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Cullyamurra - Corella's eye
view
2008
Sunset at
Cullyamurra Waterhole, and the corellas come home to roost.
Young birds spend most of the day around their nests in tree
hollows watching the pelicans patrol the creek from daylight
to dusk as they have for centuries.
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At Cooper's Creek
2008
The central panel for this painting
was created on location when we
camped at Cullyamurra Waterhole on
Cooper’s Creek in 2007. Sand, gel
and paint were manipulated into an
impression of the dry, almost
colourless landscape behind the
creek.
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Currawinya - morse code
birds
2008
The lakes at Currawinya
were brimming full, as were the claypans, simply bare
depressions in a dry time. At Lake Numalla, the air was full
of bird calls in a morse-code pattern strange to me. I’d
never seen a Pied Honeyeater, and here were hundreds –sure
enough my bird book likens their calls to morse code
signals.
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Patterns - gecko and finches
2008
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I like to play with
Nature’s colours and patterns – they are more beautiful than
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Kimberley Spinifex Pigeons
2008
On my first trip to the
Kimberley in 1986 I saw the Spinifex Pigeon while painting
at the Bungle Bungles and knew one day the experience would
come out in paint.
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Lake Houdraman - cold
day
2008
Maranoa River Bank
2008
Maranoa River Reflections
2008
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On a still evening, look up
river. The reflections are superb.
A reflection on the word
“reflection”:
1. a mirror image
2. a calm, lengthy, intent
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Galahs
2008
A good season provides ripe pickings
for seed eating birds. Galahs
against a background of grass
paddocks and dark trees inspired
this painting.
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Diamantina billabong
2008
How many tenants to a tree? This
was obviously prime
real estate for
the Yellow-billed Spoonbill family.
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Currawinya - road to the
lakes
2008
Recent rain had created puddleholes or mini lakes along some of the tracks and I found the
shapes and colours fascinating.
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SHADOW SERIES
Spoonbill - cold morning at
Ward River
2008
Catching breakfast is hard work in
sub-zero temperatures – best to find
a few rays of sun and warm up a
little first. This is a "morning
shadow” painting using cool colours.
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Driving Big Red
2008
As
good tourists we drove up Big Red west of
Birdsville,
Australia’s highest sandhill. From
the east the climb is not
so steep so we took
the return journey a little too lightly.
This
was the view as we reversed downhill to try
again!
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Blue bonnets
2008
A bird image
from my memory bank – driving eastwards from home
I caught
sight of a pair of Blue-bonnets along a fence-line in brigalow
country – no time to stop, so the image had to be
stored.
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