Title: Paddle Steamer "Adelaide"
Year Created: 2007
Medium: Watercolor

THE ARTIST'S COMMENTS:
This was painted on site on the RIVER Murray in Victoria, Australia.
I was striving to get good aerial perspective and to simplify my brushwork.
Started watercolour painting 5 yrs ago at age 79

Title: Visiting Town 19th Century Sofala

Title: Coish Harbour --- Tide's out
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Watercolor

THE ARTIST'S COMMENTS:
A Cornishman by birth and upbringing, and a frequent visitor (although living down-under), I never tire of looking at the beautiful harbours.

Here I wanted to show how some boats lean when the tide is out and others don't. Also I tried to get the idea of water still hanging around on the harbour bed.

Title: Rainforest Creek "the sky IS blue!"
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Watercolor

THE ARTIST'S COMMENTS:
Although inside the forest it is dank,
hot and humid there will be the occasional spot where
the light tries to get through.
It is only the creek which reflects some of that.
All is quiet here except for the trickle of the water.

Title: Rainforest Exit
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Watercolor

THE ARTIST'S COMMENTS
The last of my Northern Australia Rainforest paintings. Here I emerge from the closed-in darkness of the forest on to the gorge with its colourful cliffs, twin waterfall and spread of water. It is a relief to be breathing clean, open air!

"Ball's Head"

Title: Rainforest Creek, Northe
Territory, Australia
Created: 2008
Medium: Watercolor

THE ARTIST'S COMMENTS:
This was an attempt to apply large brush techniques to a much smaller area. Aerial perspective was important to me yet I wanted to portray the lush density of the rainforest itself.

"Governor Phillip Lookout"

Watercolour

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"Confrontation"
between a couple of pelicans
whilst I was painting some
boat & wharf scenes
at the Sydney Fish Market
too good to miss!
Watercolour 560 x 380mm on
Bockingford 425gsm Rough.

"Hydrangea Magic".
We have one smaller Hydrangea
that comes into the most
beautiful array of colours in
Late Summer to Autumn.
Sheer magic!
Painted on Canaletto Aquarelle
300gsm, 470 x 290mm,
a very difficult paper to handle.

"Velvet Majesty"
a waterclour painting
515 x 350mm on Fabriano
Artistico 300 gsm.
I love these Regal Pelargoniums
with their velvety
twisting blossom contrasting their clean
sharp-cut foliage.

"Gently Rolling"
Influenced bymy few trips to the
North Curl Curl Beach
and this on a placid day.
On Arches paper 300 gsm 320 x 210mm.

"Being Your Slave" is a piece of Calligraphy,
on Vellum, 15.5 x 11.5mm, with 23.5c gold
and gouache.
It is written with Chinese stick ink in a
Modern version of Gothic
Batarde formata which I
designed after extensive
study overseas from Books of Hours
and other Liturgical books written during
the period from 1350 to 1550 in N France,
Flanders and S England