Ross Bridge...

Ross Bridge, Tasmania by Rev Norris Brook...
Rev Norris Brook was a minister at the Yagoona Baptist Church, N.S.W. in the early '60's.
He and his wife Ethel had 2 boys - Craig and Dean...
( He began attending the N.S.W. Baptist Theological College in 1954.
Rev Ron Hansard was in his year.)
I think there was a daughter too, but I am not sure...
As a sideline to his ministry, he loved to paint in oils...
I loved mountains... and he painted a snow-capped mountain by water for me...
The painting above is the only example of his work that I have found online...


grim weathered landscape
a vital bridge
bathed in white light

Eastern Dream...

Eastern Dream (1904) Jean Lecomte Du Nouÿ (1842-1923)  Oil on canvas


when I sleep
in your world
I awaken
the spirit of
your eyes
your nearness
your breathing


I feel the wings
of your presence
bearing the joys of
our yesterdays

closer
and
closer

Christmas Memories...

Christmas Memories - Thomas Kinkade



dampened light

whispers of Christmas colours

filter

melt

old loneliness

the voyage of life...

 the voyage of life: manhood oil on canvas, 1840 by Thomas Cole (1801-1848)


in the grottos of light and shadow
snagged with old rocks and
old trees
the waters appear to flow

effortlessly

View of a Village...

 View of a Village - Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854 - 1941) - oil painting


in search of new happiness

when the channels were slow
and a little village was
an everywhere

There's a room...

Franz Sedlacek (1891-1945​) Song in the Twilight (Lied in der Dämmerung) - Oil on canvas - 1931

There's a room in my mind that is
A little Dali and
A little Magritte
Where Gothic cords slip
Like ghostly skaters in
Foreign realities
Where dark wings
Breeze and
Siren colours
Pulse
An invitation to be
Another

There's a room in my mind that is
A little Dali and
A little Magritte
Where Sedlacek dreams are
Welcome

Eagle Point

Garry Purcell (Melbourne, Australia) ~ Eagle Point - Lake King (oil)
~

I wandered with you
A long time ago
The weekend was our time
To just be in
 Open grasslands
Wetlands
Wild trees and
Wildflowers
I was just a young child
But you were my guide
My spirit
My father

Mirror Portrait

Artist and Pilgrim 2006 by Anatoly Kontsub (Belarus)
~

A kind of haunting


A pilgrim
Yearning to be an artist


An artist
In touch with
His pilgrim spirit

Rose Garden

Paul Klee (Switzerland) 1879-1940 ~ Rose Garden (1920)
~

Glitz, glamour and gloss
In the high season


But in the sunless
Wintry greys
Distant
Stark
Thorny shapes
Sleeping


Ironic
Lifecycle of
An urban rose

Unity in the Dust

Fareeha Ghezal Yousufzai (Afghanistan)
~

A new waiting
Waiting for some leaf
Some green leaf


Rising from our ashes
Writhing in
Dusty sunshine


Some Godot
Rising


May our circle
Be unbroken

Queen Bianca

Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905) - Finland - Queen Bianca (1877)
This is a portrait depicting medieval times.
~

Beyond the costumed ceremonies of
Queen and prince


In a room
Behind dark traditional doors


A moment of joy
And light


Young mother and child

In the eyes...

Paresh Maity (India 1965- )
NEWS: In mid 2010, he completed a huge painting to adorn New Delhi International Airport
~

Gentle face
An innocent palette
Smiling
A little
Waiting for
The carvings of experience to
Etch their footprint


But in the eyes
A secret
Hollow sadness
Resigned to watching
Freedom
Pass by

Dancing Elves

Älvalek or Dancing Elves (1866) by August Malmström (1829-1901) ~ Sweden
~

Pale landscapes
Powdered with
Ancient
Sombre
Sleeping light
Sprayed with a
Luminous
Bouquet of
Rushing springs
Etching
A heart-shaped
Fairy ring

Northern Summer Reverie

Sergei Aparin - Born in Voronezh, Russia in 1961. This painting is entitled July - oil on canvas
~

We are three

Screening the tides of old waves
Prodding the depths of new

And one elects to be overseer

The clear one
Becalmed in still waters
The centre
The centrifugal force
Apparently there
Dependent on the competitive tensions of
Yesterday and tomorrow

Going somewhere and
Gone

We are three
But I am ONE
~

Dreamcolours

Leonid Afremov - born in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus in 1955 - the same town where Marc Chagall was born. (Belarus became independent of Russia in 1991.) This is an oil painting created with a painting knife and called Dream.
~

Raining colours of light
Goring the wells of night
Flooding the fears
Lubricating vibrant pools of happiness
~

Once upon a butterfly...

Angel Villanueva (Mexico) ~ 1492 (2008) ~ Oil on canvas
~

Cocooned heartbeat
Fragile wings
Visionary sails
Transitory eternity
~