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The Local Grocer
No.73 in my series of short stories. The Local Grocer The Local Grocer. One of 3 in this series. I am describing this painting that holds deep personal significance to me, capturing memories of my childhood. I am trying to vividly capture a transformative period in Perth's history, shaped by the industrious efforts of multicultural migrant families. Their contribution is more than just agricultural it ads significantly to the cultural and economic fabric of the regions,
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Marble Bar Ironclad Hotel
Memories of Marble Bar's Ironclad Hotel. The people and their stories.
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Family Gathering on the Yule river.
A great day out lunching on the Yule river after a cyclone has brought seasonal rains to the area.
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Sturt's Desert Pea
No.60 in my series of short stories. My experiences and observations of the Sturt's Desert Pea "Red Eye" variant, adds an interesting...
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Gold Prospecting in a river bed.
No.59. in my series of short stories. We had been out Gold Prospecting in a river bed and up and down hills and valleys. It was after a...
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Life in a caravan park.
No.58 in my series of short stories. Life in a caravan park. Yep that's me on the right, 30 years old, skinny and full of life, oh...
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My Red Dog series.
No.57. in my series of short stories. My painting describes a vivid picture of the pastoral beauty of Paradise, a suburb behind...
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Albany Western Australia
No.56. in my series of short stories. Wonderful memories from my time working just out of Albany, Western Australia on a property...
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A night in the Wittenoom Jail
No.54. in my series of short stories. Wittenoom a famous asbestos mining town now a genuinely dangerous ghost town. Rocks have always...
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HQ 1973 Holden Kingswood
No.52. in my series of short stories. It was in 1978 when we once again would travel Australia's outback in our Red HQ 1973 Holden...
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Vintage Caterpillar Crawler Tractor
No.51. in my series of short stories. My grandparents had a sheep and wheat farm in Jennacubine Western Australia where as children my...
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Rembrandt Oil Paints
No.50. in my series of short stories. I will not be sharing a full story due to getting over Covid. To anyone that has come in over the last couple of days I am not contagious as I did do another test before I opened the Gallery doors. Anyway I am not very good at sharing so I havn't given it to anyone. I have been trying to get back into a new painting so I will show you where I am at with it and hopefully I can show it completed next time I put up a Blog. Undercoat i
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Kalumburu baobabs
Kalumburu is the most remote permanent settlement in Western Australia and is located on the King Edward River, 550 kilometres from...
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Shaw River Hillside Station
No.48. in my series of short stories. Shaw River Hillside Station Prospecting for gold on Hillside Station was an adventurous pursuit. The nights out in the desert in our swags when the temperatures would sometimes be around minus 3deg. Rising predawn, to explore the terrain with metal detectors in search of gold adds a sense of anticipation. The quiet moments before the heat, having breakfast, filling water bottles, making sure we have everything we need for the day. Usin
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Kailis Fisheries in my Mark 2 Ford Zephyr
No.47. in my series of short stories For one season I worked at the Kailis Fisheries, in Port Denison on the Western Australian coast...
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Australian shearing shed
No.43. in my series of short stories Nothing like the original old Australian shearing shed on Nans farm @ Jennacubbine in Western...
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Nullarbor Plain-The Great Australian Bight
No.42. in my series of short stories We are still on the Nullarbor Plain in 1968 in my Mark 2 Zephyr. A photo of The Great Australian...
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Nullarbor Plain 1968 in my Mark 2 Zephyr
No.41. in my series of short stories The Nullarbor Plain 1968 in my Mark II Zephyr was quite an adventurous journey I was just 19. The...
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Barradale Roadhouse Part 2
No.40. in my series of short stories. Continued: Here I am again still situated at Barradale Roadhouse which was approximately 300...
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Barradale Roadhouse. Part 1
No.39. in my series of short stories. It was around 1966 I was 17 and thrilled to get a job as a booking clerk in the lovely old...
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