Last Friday was the opening of the group exhibition I’m part
of called ‘Lost in Tropical Delirium’. I didn’t wander too far from my
favourite subjects of gardening, parks, beach and birds, my experience of life
in the tropics. I challenged myself to work a bit bigger than usual.
This one I think is 60x60cm – ‘Mother and daughter reading’.
I posted the sketches for this one last time. It’s not based on real life, my
daughter doesn’t come walking down the beach with me (too boring), and neither
of the figures looks like us. But we do both read a lot, my daughter usually
reads on an I-pad, one day she told me she was reading an manga called ‘Death
Note’ (a fairly dark and edgy tale), and I was reading something at the other
end of the spectrum ‘The Miniaturist’ set in 17th century Amsterdam.
I guess this is the moment that sparked the painting.
The other biggish painting I did is approx. 60x80cm is
called ‘The Cloud Dress’. It’s based on a little doodle in my sketchbook. The
crotons in the background of the painting and the bush chooks at the front are
very characteristic of Darwin gardens…
I’ll show you some of my other exhibition pieces next time.
I’m looking forward to a lovely weekend of singing. Dynes
Austin is musical director of The Café of the Gate of Salvation Choir in
Sydney, he’s coming to Darwin to lead a weekend of workshops which ends with a
free concert on Sunday at 4.30 at Christchurch Cathedral. (workshops are open
to anyone so if you’re interested contact Darwin Chorale) We’ll be singing thiskind of music – have a listen!
