country scene...

'Country Scene' (created about 1970's-1989) by Norris Brook
(For details about Rev Norris Brook and another painting,
see my blog post HERE)


life's weathered panels
dusky winds thrill to ride in
wide open portals

Autumn Branding...

'Autumn Branding' by Hugh Sawrey CBE (born in Forest Glen, Queensland, 1919, died Benalla, Victoria, 1999).
Sawrey was an Australian artist and founder of the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, Longreach, Queensland.
- ref: Hugh Sawrey Career + Hugh Sawrey Biography
I took this photo of his work in my room at the Bayview on the Park hotel, Melbourne...


pioneer dusts
campfire charcoal brews
outback art 

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

ancestral colours...

Jean-Baptiste Valadie

French painter born 29th December 1933

proudly

I walk in my ancestral colours

and gaze sadly on

your parched

your scorched

urban spaces

book of life...

Book of Life - painted sculpture by David Kracov (1945-  ) ...
Michael Douglas gave this as a gift to his father Kirk Douglas...



in our life cycles
we walk
sunshines and rains
cobblestones and
burning sands

but in the cosmic weave of things
wings
are always there in
the book of leaves for

rebirth and
renewal

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