The world without us, pastel A2

Willy Wagtail owning a vacant lot and two trees, oil 20 x 15cm

The Great Ancestor, oil 20 x 15cm

Dogwalker, pastel A2

Dogwalker detail

Butterflies descending on a city crowd, oil 20 x 15cm

A sketch for a story, 'The Butterflies', recently published in an anthology Where the Shoreline Used To Be, which you can find out a bit more about here.

Weston St, oil 20 x 15cm

20 landscapes in 2 minutes, pen A4

Desert storyteller, pastel A2

Apartment lights and lawn, oil 20 x 15cm

Small industrial estate on the back of a sparrow, oil 20 x 15cm

Concept collage / sketch for The Arrival, 2001, photocopy and pencil, A5

From 15 years ago, one of my first concept 'sketches' for The Arrival in which I began by drawing over the top of a collection of photocopied pictures, mainly of migrants and refugees from different eras. At this stage I was not sure what kind of project this was in either style or narrative, just playing with images, such as this one, with a vague suggestion of 'serpents'. I still use this technique often now, albeit more digitally, starting with found images and evolving them over time via multiple drawings, ingesting other references along the way.

Tiny Sunset, colour pencil & biro, 5 x 3cm

Last night I had a dream that I was working in an advertising firm and had to come up with a poster on some environmental theme. I remember well enough what I did to recreate it here. I often do a lot of painting and writing  in my dreams - pretty much all of it abysmal! Unusually, this one seems pretty good, probably a lot better than anything I would come up with during waking hours.

detail from The Lost Thing (2000), oil

A recent ABC Radio National story about ships that sail the air, from medieval tales to the present, in which I was invited to make a few comments; a very interesting subject.

<http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/ships-that-sail-the-air/7085420

Sundown in Bundanon, oil 20 x 15cm

Backyard with plum tree, oil 20 x 15cm

Raven and cypress tree, oil 20 x 15cm

Cloud street, oil 20 x 15cm

New suburb, oil 20 x 15cm

Tram stop, Brunswick West, oil 20 x 15cm