Sutra
Handmark Gallery, Hobart, 25 February - 23 March 2011
Over the last two years I have developed a way of painting in which the paint has come to resemble thread. The paintings themselves contain many of my thoughts about cultural continuity and inheritance, and about memory, both personal and cultural. Repetition has emerged as an important element.
Some of the paintings have found their themes in the natural environment, some in patterns taken from nature but expressed in ways associated with the domestic interior or personal adornment. Others are more abstract.
The marks from which the paintings are constructed form a personal calligraphy, a wordless communication of philosophical intent, as I follow the thread of being, over time.
Autumn Looking Down, Looking Up. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Blue Field. Acrylic on canvas, 115 x 125 cm
Button Grass. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Country II. Acrylic on canvas, 110 x 130 cm
Dawning. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Garden with Roses. Acrylic on canvas, 115 x 125 cm
Link I. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Link II. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Link III. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Little Manuscript. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Little Memory. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Manuscript. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Mended memory. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Moonless night. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Morning, sun rising. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Not forgotten. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Remembering history. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Sailor's Trousers. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Sutra. Acrylic on canvas, 110 x 130 cm
Seam. Acrylic on canvas, 125 x 115 cm cm
Shadow. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Sunday Rain. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Time Piece. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Towards evolution. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 57.5 cm
Triptych. Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 110 cm
Wetlands. Acrylic on canvas, 115 x 125 cm