Current mixed media work using inks, acrylic and Japanese paper .
Author Archives: Julian
From the studio
Paintings and drawings from travels to the north. 2019
A rambling rumination on art
It’s a fine luxury to be in a position to work at unravelling your world view through your art without the threat of poverty or persecution.
It is a noble endeavour to create pretty and decorative images that give pleasure and respite to our daily grind. Is exploring the not so nice realities of the world in an aesthetic coating any more noble?
Cats
On the easel: Busy in the studio reworking old drawings and paintings of cats that may end up in a frame or in the bin. Take time and enjoy the eye play bottom image (Sitting cat).
Road trip- 2019
A road trip in the shadow of Thomas Baines. Working on an idea Landscape and colonisation
A pilgrimage
Looking at the Hiroshima Panels: The work shares a place alongside Picasso’s raw and direct Guernica , Goya’s clarity in The Disasters of War series, and strength found in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Federal election-May 2019-Australia
Some reflections on social media and taking personal action after the election steal of May 19th.
Goodbye Facebook
I stopped directly feeding Facebook algorithms on the 19th of May 2019 post the Australian Federal election. I pushed the…
The Abbey
I have begun stitching together past threads of my life. This is a google map photo of The Abbey in…
SOS – Berlin 1983-Albert Speer’s son?
This urban development caught my eye when in West Berlin. I did not record the street name or the architect’s name…but from memory, I think it was Albert Speer’s son. Is there anyone out there who can help? And, I wonder if the development still exists?