Gallery 1

REFLECTIONS & SHADOWS - FRAMED GALLERY - DARWIN - MAY 2011

These works are exhibited at Framed (The Darwin Gallery) during May 2011.  They are collages which combine inked monoprinted tissue papers, acrylic paint and drawing media. They reflect the moods of this part of tropical Australia  - including the sombre moods of a long monsoon season. The creatures that lurk in these landscapes are characters - some of them long extinct - and may be metaphoric.

Timeless

Mixed media collage on canvas

Only the animals and birds set the time as prehistoric

122cm x 30cm

Fogg Dam

A wetland near Darwin full of life

Watercolour on paper

74cm x 64cm

Dry Landscape with Black Trees

Acrylic collage on paper

65cmx75cm

Wooded Valley

Acrylic collage on canvas

122cm x 30cm

Remember the Territory

From a long way off, thinking of a day in the Territory

Acrylic collage

six paintings 30cm x 30cm

Sundowner Hill

Acrylic collage on canvas

101cm x 40cm (private collection)

Tropical Garden

Mixed media collage on canvas

An idealised tropical garden - mine is just as chaotic but has more weeds

76cm x 122cm

Mary River Rocks

Mixed media collage on canvas

Gardenias and young speargrass with an approaching monsoon storm

101cm x 40cm

Gum Tree in Dappled Shade

Acrylic, collage on linen

A hollow tree is home for flying foxes, doves and a tree rat

60cm x 91cm

Wild Pigs

Acrylic collage on canvas

Four bad characters in a wood

122cm x 40cm

Pondlife

Looking up to the sun from the bottom of a pond - teeming with life: frogs; fishes; bugs; slimy creatures...

Acrylic collage on canvas

61cm x 76cm

Small Pond

Small fish in a small pond with weeds and tadpoles

Acrylic collage on canvas

30cm x 40cm

Watchful

Acrylic collage on canvas

51cm x 51cm

Trees waiting for rain

Going West

Memories of the mesas seen from the Victoria Highway - going west

Acrylic collage on canvas

122cm x 30cm

Palorchestes

Acrylic collage on canvas

A baby Palorchestes - a long-extinct ground-sloth-like animal - approaches a waterhole in dense rainforest.

40cm x 51cm

Waterhole

A prehistoric landscape

Acrylic collage on paper

75cm x 65cm

Mary River

Dawn on the Mary River, NT

Acrylic collage on canvas

122cm x 30cm

Rock Shelter

People shelter during the heat of the day in a cave shaded by Livistona palms

Acrylic collage on canvas

51cm x 81cm

Tree Swamp

Shadow and reflections pattern a paperbark wetland at Humpty Doo, Northern Territory

Acrylic collage on canvas

51cm x 76cm

Blue Headland

Acrylic collage on canvas

50cm x 40cm

Forest

The tall ancient forest seems strangely empty

Acrylic collage on canvas

46cm x 122cm