Inspirations

I like to slow down and really look at times. My artworks, marks and lines, describe an emotional response or connection on seeing something at a particular point in time. Nature, nurture or adventure, the inspirations for artworks comes on remembering the reason for that slow look.

Alyogyne huegelii (Lilac Hibiscus), native to SA and WA, just open for business after a rainy dawn. It’s all over in 24 hours.

Yellow-tailed Black cockatoo,

<cool blacks, warm blacks, shades of grey, and a splash of yellow

Where inspiration for creating art comes from is hard to define. I notice the things I dwell on, when you pause to look closer, to really see. It could be either something on a screen or something you see in the flesh. Was it something about it’s construction, it’s detail, it’s colour combinations, or the emotions it triggered? Usually it’s a combination of these.

I take a lot of photos for future reference, and as a memory aid. When an idea for an art work pops up, a lot of times it involves using a picture I have taken in the past.

I like to use my photos nowadays but sometimes I cannot be there in the flesh and use pictures from the web, for works like ‘Navalny’, ‘Anointed’ etc.

A very young spotted dove, only days out from nest. Still covered in the fluffy chick remnants. Can fly but clumsy at landing. When it sees movement it freezes, and you can carefully get really close. Go back ten minutes later and it’s moved.

‘Young dove’ pen and wash

The path ahead now branches, you have four choices.. You can move down the path to see recent creations, maybe take the path that goes to older work. The last path leads to the back yard and its inhabitants, a great source of interest and inspiration. Or you can turn around and go back to the home page. Enjoy.

Agapanthus ‘Fireworks’ <purple, white and shades of green>

Cardinal creeper and visitor <this range of reds and these greens>

Abispa ephippium. Potter wasp working on her second cell. One egg and two or three paralysed caterpillars in each and then sealed. Eight weeks later the new wasp digs it’s way out.

<softer edges away from the main focus.

Day lily and early visitors <limited palette here>