Old and new works. This page shows one of my earliest collagraph works in comparison to the fun and colourful group of linoprints in more recent years. They are inspired by the beautiful Capricorn Coast, my home for the past 12 years.
multiplate reduction linoprint, 2017
akua ink on fabriano tiepolo
image size: 40cm x 50cm
The Swimmer was created as a larger, older sister to the smaller Vintage Cozzies series of prints that were initially developed for the Itty Bitty member exhibition at The Mill Gallery Yeppoon in 2015. She made her first showing in the 10 Artists \ Living in Livingstone exhibition, an exhibition by selected artists of the Livingstone Shire.
linoprint, 2015
oil based ink on fabriano rosaspina
image size: 8cm x 12cm
The Vintage Cozzies series of miniature prints was developed for the Itty Bitty member exhibition at The Mill Gallery Yeppoon. The very first thing that came to mind was the tune 'She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini' as sung by Brian Hyland in 1960. It was a given that I just had to create a polka dot bikini!
linoprint, 2015
oil based ink on fabriano rosaspina
image size: 8cm x 12cm
linoprint, 2015
oil based ink on fabriano rosaspina
image size: 8cm x 12cm
linoprint, 2015
oil based ink on fabriano rosaspina
image size: 8cm x 12cm
reduction linoprint, 2017
akua ink on fabriano rosaspina
image size: 40cm x 50cm
P is for Percival was created in response to the Capricornia Printmakers exhibition, Classic Editions, in response to the Australian children's classic novel Storm Boy by Colin Thiele.
A childhood favourite of mine, Storm Boy by Colin Thiele described the beauty in the desolate landscape of The Coorong, the love between a boy and a pelican and the ultimate plight of his heroic best friend.
The landscape presented could very well be Keppel Bay in Yeppoon, with the boat resting on the tidal flats of Ross Creek.
collagraph, 2012
oil based ink on fabriano rosaspina
image size 17cm x 23.5cm
I live close to the sea. I can feel it, hear it, and taste it in the air. The sea and my surrounding environment strongly influences my art. A few days after the full moon in November, we experience the phenomena of coral spawning on the reef. The tides will carry this spawn atop the deep blue seas to assault another of our senses. And yet, this phenomenon is beautiful. Essential to new life on the reef.
A very early work, this piece was developed for 1 Exhibition, the inaugural annual exhibition of the Capricornia Printmakers.
This work is held within the Rockhampton Art Gallery collection.