Landscape from a dream: anvil, oil 20 x 15cm

Black cat and cypress, oil 20 x 15cm

One of 50 small paintings currently on show at The Lost Ones gallery in Ballarat, with work by Harlely Manifold and Nick Dryden until February 26. You can view an online catalogue here: http://www.thelostones.com.au/shaun-tan-catalogue

Apartment lights in Brunswick West, oil 20 x 15cm

Ilhan lane, oil 20 x 15cm

Decision, oil 20 x 15cm

Hare, oil 20 x 15cm

Gathering of trees on a Saturday night, oil 20 x 15cm

Hotel room, Lausanne, oil 20 x 15cm

random sketchbook page, biro and pencil

Post box, wall and pole, Union St. Brunswick, oil 20 x 15cm

Life Goat, pencil, A3

Happy New Year from the Life Goat! And many thanks to everyone who has supported my publications, ramblings and exhibitions throughout 2016, commented via this blog, offered advice or just borrowed a book. Wishing you all the right balance of inspiration, doubt and perserverence for 2017: let's all step into the fray with a rational heart, listening with our eyes and fighting every shadow with a well-sharpened pencil.

Park with bats, Brunswick West, oil 20 x 15cm

Evening cloud and star, oil 20 x 15cm

Whisper: an exhibition in Ballarat, Victoria

Highway crossing, Colac, oil 20 x 15cm

 

I will be part of a group show in Ballarat from January 18 until February 26 at The Lost Ones Gallery (14 Camp Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm.) Fellow painters Nick Dridan and Harley Manifold (with whom I shared a studio for a couple of years) have a shared interest in solitary objects and figures in vast landscapes; the title of the show is Whisper. I will contribute about 50 small oil paintings of the kind often posted on this blog (as above), and very much looking forward to hanging alongside Nick and Harley. More info about it here: http://www.thelostones.com.au/upcomingevents/

Cloud, oil 20 x 15cm

Couple on a hill, sketchbook page, ink, 10 x 15cm

Sun and wind, Cottesloe Beach, oil 20 x 15cm

Sydney Road blue, oil 20 x 15cm

Never give your keys to a stranger, from Rules of Summer, 2013

Three of my larger format prints are now available through my local Brunswick supplier of pop-surrealism, beinArt Gallery http://beinart.org/, at Sparta Place in Brunswick. You can check them out here, or even better, pop in to examine all other weirdness. A broader selection of other prints continue to be available through Books Illustrated, with a couple of recent additions.

Tullamarine Freeway, oil 20 x 15cm