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

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

In the mystical hour...

Joseph Zbukvic - Santa Maria de la Salute at Sunset, Venice 
- Australian watercolourist from Yugoslovia
His website is HERE


When waters sleep in silken cradles

When boats idle in the lilt of tides


When evening mystical tears
Weep their secrets


Wings spin the song of

Final lights


Linking to:
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads ~ Open Link Monday

Two Waterfalls

Rafael Saldana (1930-2000) ~ Two Waterfalls
Rafael lived in Liffey, a hamlet in northern Tasmania, facing Dry's Bluff in the Western Tiers.
He enjoyed painting whimsical interpretations of his environment.
Many of his paintings are now available on postcards.
This is my photo of one of them.


Deep in a mossy gully
Where a waterfall
Spills
Her soul

My earth
Feels close
To you


UPDATE NOTE: (from Kylie Eastley Consultancy Friday July 6, 2018)
So, if you came to my little 1960s house in the suburbs for tea, what would you see now…forty years on? On the wall is a small painting by a dear friend and artist, Rafael Saldana. Rafael and his lovely wife Maria introduced me to Sangria and we spent many hours talking art, travel and their bohemian times in Sydney in the 60’s. Our friendship began when I was only 17 and over the years Ralf and I would talk about art, Maria and I would discuss life, relationships and their mulberry trees as we sat in their wonderful garden in Launceston and later spent time at Liffey. It’s a simple painting of two birds in his garden; but I recognise the plants, the light and his style. It’s one of my most prized possessions. 

Linking to:
dVerse - Open Link Night

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

As it was...

Soft Blue Landscape [1979] by Richard Hamilton (AUS) ~ Collotype and screenprint
~

Cascading
Crumbling
Jumbling
Beauty


Like a gush of Nature


Re-creating

Watercolour Reverie

Shirley Charlton ~ Australia ~ Brisbane River Watercolour
~

Urban worlds smeared in mists

Sails unfurled

Clear
Reflections
Crinkled
Like a warped
Journey distilled in
Tears~