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The Garden

Size 80cm x 50cm

Acrylic Mediums on stretched cotton/poly canvas. Unframed

I have a love-hate relationship with this painting. Or perhaps I just hate it! There was a time of desperate illness, pain, mental confusion and depression. It was a time where there was no sense of creative imagination at all. Nothing. On top of that I was so ill I could barely get from room to room.There was absolutely nothing I could do to get my mind into any sort of order during that time nor to stop the constant drift into spiritual bleakness

I needed to do something so I let this painting make itself. It was my body struggling to do simple physical actions but the visual content came unbidden.

I tend to over analyze some images so the text which was here extending the description of the image has been removed. I will leave room for other imaginations

Better days! The artist among some of his works during an exhibition at Ourimbah Campus. This was 1995 during the University of Newcastle, Open Foundation, Visual Arts course although one or two of the works were created years earlier during the Certificate of Graphic Design, Finished Art at Hunter Insitute.

The artist managed to crouch for one brief photograph and the difficulty may be seen in the grip he has on the umbrella. It hurt!

The painting he is holding is "The Bottle" Acrylic on cold pressed paper. Purchased by Bryan Peach prior to the exhibit and on loan.