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THE 30 YEAR PAINTING
I spend a lot of time in the dry mulga country of northern Victoria – hot, dusty, ant-infested and full of birds. Hattah-Kulkyne...
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MY PAINTING TECHNIQUES 1
Based on a very old article I did when I was in my late 20s (see the hairy guy I once was!) I want to demonstrate how I paint with...
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ON BECOMING A BETTER BIRD PAINTER
Painting birds is one of the greatest challenges for any wildlife artist. There seems to be a never-ending cycle of anguish and tr...
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NEW, NEW STUDIO
Recently we had a standard looking rural back yard…chooks, mown weeds and a fence to keep the kangaroos, wombats, emus and deer ...
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WHEN GALLERIES START DISAPPEARING
Galleries are an almost extinct breed of beast. My last exhibition was a wakeup call for me – no one comes to galleries to buy a...
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THE CURSE OF BECOMING KNOWN
A curious thing happened when I started getting better known as an artist…I stopped winning art prizes and started collecting pa...
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SEARCHING FOR LANDSEER
How can a museum mislay ‘Monarch of the Glen’? The top of my list of must-see things for my recent trip to Britain was to get ...
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BLOSSOMTIME
It’s not a truth universally acknowledged that a keen interest in, and knowledge of, old-world roses will get you the girl in th...
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SURVIVING A WORKSHOP
To tell the truth I was more than a little worried – would I be able to survive doing my first teaching workshop in over 30 year...
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