Although many say watercolour is the most difficult medium, to me, it is the best.
I can control it to the finest, tiny line, then wet it and let it move with great freedom. No other medium gives the clarity or tenderness that can be achieved with watercolour. I can make it very bold and very strong, or apply the softest of washes.
Putting a colour on a wet surface creates beautiful patterns that spread themselves to where ever I want them to go, then I can come back and enhance with utmost control. I can add textures and suggestive lines and marks to say what I need to pass my thoughts and vision to the viewer.
Such a joy for the soul.
FLORALS
enlargement of COSMOS showing control possible with watercolours
POPPIES
GARDEN BOUNTY. A study in apricots and mauves.
PEONY
DARK IRIS
I love painting these lovely flowers. In real life this painting looked like velvet, all the layers giving it a great depth.
LILLIES
Watercolour and charcoal. Champion painting numerous times.
PEONIES Again these beautiful curling petals.
GRANDMOTHERS’ CHINA
Treasures from the past held forever in this painting.
IRIS
FLOWERS #3
A study in loose watercolour with just some suggestions of subject matter to get the message across.
FUSCIAS Watercolour over Gesso
THE JUGS. Champion Painting Toowoomba Show.
SCOTTISH WILDFLOWERS Voted People’s Choice Pittsworth Art Exhibition.
COSMOS
Painted for a raffle for the Cancer Council. Colour choice in these circumstances is critical as it has to suit anyone’s decor.
DANDELIONS #2 Donated to a Cancer Council Raffle. In this one I used a blue back ground rather than the brown. I’m not sure which is best.
BEAUTIFUL WHITE In real life this is beautiful. It was a direct response to some terrible things on the news, bombarding us all day, so I painted the softest most gentle things I could. It is not just a pretty painting but my political statement to the world.
JUST JOEY
I loved the colour contrasts and the freedom in parts and the details in others.
DANDELIONS
The masking took a whole day to apply, longer than it took to paint.
ROSES, ST. BEES. CUMBRIA UK
LANDSCAPES
AFTER THE RAIN #1
56 x 76 cm
SOLD
Watercolour on Arches paper
AFTER THE RAIN #2 56 x 76 cm
SOLD Watercolour on Arches paper
CECIL PLAINS CREEK
SOLD
ROSEWOOD CREAM SHED
SOLD
THE ROAD HOME SOLD
LOOKING TOWARDS BROOKSTEAD SOLD Champion Painting Pittsworth and Millmerran Shows
HARVEST TIME. When the air is hot and filled with harvest dust. Champion many times. I have kept this one.
BESIDE THE CROSSING My children have kept this one.
HORSE PADDOCK SUNSET Watercolour and graphite. I used the drawing element as part of the design.
HORSE PADDOCK SUNSET Detail. Showing the drawing elements.
