Pencil drawing on acid free card. 2009
This work is a drawing of Michael Caine drawn in a Design Course at Kingswood TAFE College in 2009.
ROLY MAT
Pastel on canvas. 2009
This is about a time when I came home to find my dog very sick. It was like ‘lifting the mat’,
and discovering that this was a dying animal. This beautiful animal’s end was near.
PICKING FLOWERS. 2008
Picking Flowers. Ink on architectural paper. 11th April, 2008
There is something beautiful about the sheen of the paper and the black of the ink
that makes the drawing light up when viewed.
TONY SAVAGERIO: UNLOCKING THE FOREIGN PSYCHE
Ink on acid-free card. 2008
This is about a UK artist friend of mine who, in the 1970’s rallied all over England for an anti drugs campaign.
The campaign was highly successful , reducing the drug trafficking up to 70 percent. Not without
terrible gang vindication. Tony was shot twice, and in this drawing shows him being shot.
Many years on, artist Tony Savages still lives to tell his gruesome and heroic tale.
BOUNTY. 2007
Bounty. Ink on paper. 2007
Another play with positive and negative spacing.
Doodling or Trance Art, is a great way to come up with interesting images of the heart and mind.
At the time I was reading about the Philadelphia Experiment, so some pretty weird
stuff subconsciously, came out in the drawing.
RELATIO INTERRUPTUS . 2007
Relatio Interruptus. Ink on acid free card. 11 June 2007.
This drawing is about how some men can sometimes congregate egoistically at barbecues,
while they piss up, and leave the women out. A mixture of bravado, arrogance, and macho attitude seems to occur.
I have found this is more in the older age bracket of the 60’s plus group, but I could well believe that where there is a barbecue, and a group of men drinking their booze, the possibility may just occur there too. Is this purely an Australian cultural habit?
BLUE LADY
pastel on canvas. 2007
Conceptual work with symbolism depicting loneliness, confinement, sadness, and hope.
Abstracted, due to the nature of this conceptual work.
LIZARDS
Ink drawing on acid-free paper. July 2006
The idea for this was to draw what isn’t real as a real image and to use the positive spacing as a
negative interpretation. So for example, the naked lady daydreaming of monsters attacking her is
being attacked by lizards, with a man drawn facing her, thought there is a face
drawn on the back of his jacket, looking the other way. Other images drawn in this imaginatively convoluted drawing are
nerd head, king’s head, crossed, houses, a letter, a clown, a rose, a shower head with sprays and drips, buildings , snake,
steps, roads that lead to nowhere, cogs and loopy tubing, other odd bits, and lizards attacking as if on a city!
I think Freud may have something to think about with this one!
HIGH PRIESTESS
ink on acid free paper. July, 2006
Three types of chests are being exposed here. The High Priestess is exposing her chest, there is
also a chest fulls of skulls in it, and the lid is wide open, and also the chest of drawers, which both drawers are open
of which the top drawer is full to the brim of coins. She holds one of them in her right hand
which she guards close to her body.
The Sun rises in the East. There is a Mobilum above her head
which signifies infinity and the endless circles of cycles. There is a mirror on the wall behind the chest of drawers
which reflects the back of her head and crown. The night sky in the East…or is it the West?…
shows an apple tree with 9 apples. Her right foot is shackled, with a key right beside it to unlock it any time. Her left foot looks clubbed,
or perhaps, protecting the shackled foot. The wall and the flooring are woven matting, and is full of square, white spacing into
nothingness…or white light from the sun? An arrow with three hearts surrounding it points directly at her head. She wears a star
on a necklace on her chest. The Moon is high in the black sky.
The concept of this drawing is full of Esoteric symbolism.
JAM PACKED
Drawing on acid free paper. April, 2006
When I’m busy , soo busy with art work, sometimes some parts
of the table are reserved for sanity..and it STILL gets messy too!