These painting are from the ages of 15-18. Although I was passionate about drawing from about the age of 3, I only started painting at 15, as a much hated homework assignment from an art teacher. By the end of that painting I was hooked. That first painting was a house in a storm. These early paintings are naive but explorative and still passionate, constantly swapping styles as I grasped to learn what I could. At first my environment and influence was small country town sheltered, but when I received lessons from a teacher who was immersed in the knowledge of the old masters, I began to slowly widen my explorations. These images are low quality as they are taken from old photographs.
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'house in a storm' (first painting)
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Ghost Gum
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Tennant Creek Homestead
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Brachina Creek
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Outback Homestead
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Walkers Flat
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Young Gums
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Margan Cliffs At Sunset
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Saplings
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swan reach
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Old Post Offic, Swan Reach
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Old Schoolyard, Nuriootpa
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Dust Storm, Waikerie Railyards
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Old Barossa Valley Farm
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Fourth Street, Nuriootpa.
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Barossa Hills, Morning
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Heysen Hill, Brachina Creek
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Aroona Valley
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Nextdoor
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Summer Cliffs 2
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My backyard with the apple_pear tree
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Nextdoor, with inner knowing
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Dali-esqu Heysen Range
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Floating Rocks
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Copy after Dali_Geopoliticus Child Watching The Birth Of A New Man
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abstract
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going to church
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Face Warning
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My Father, Alan Smith
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Floating Ball
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untitled
I particularly like ”nextdoor”. You have a great ability to capture the right light, even from so early on. Interesting to see the development of your work as presented here.