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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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1973 HQ Holden Kingswood
No.64 in my series of short stories So there isn't a 1973 HQ Holden Kingswood in my painting but it did inspire this work. In the 1970's...
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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. Sticks and Stones We had been out Gold Prospecting in a river bed and up and down hills and valleys. It was after a cyclone and the river beds had another film of earth that had been washed down from up stream by the torrential rain. I hadn't found any gold but my husband had found a nice little patch. Me! I was always too busy finding things to paint just like the Sticks and Stones above with part of a dead tree to enhance the pain
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Life in a caravan park.
Life in a caravan park. Yep that's me on the right, 30 years old, skinny and full of life.
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Kailis Fisheries in my Mark 2 Ford Zephyr
No.47. in my series of short stories Brand Highway, Greenough For one season I worked at the Kailis Fisheries, in Port Denison on the Western Australian coast and this painting was done of an old house ruin and it was somewhere around the Greenough flats. I painted it 57 years ago when I was 17 and it was painted in acrylic. We would often explore the old ruins in any town we went through as I always would draw and paint old buildings. My goodness after writing all thes
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Karijini National Park
No.46. in my series of short stories The painting below is done in Watercolour and Gouache (SOLD) In the heart of Western Australia's...
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Red Dog. (My story)
No.45. in my series of short stories In the vast and rugged landscape of Western Australia, a charismatic and adventurous Kelpie mix...
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Hamersley Range
No.37. in my series of short stories. Out prospecting for gold, for the big bits that seem to elude us. My husband had climbed up the...
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MY RED DOG. Series
No.26. in my series of short stories. SOLD No.1686 Lost at Cradle Mountain. 30cm x 20cm. Oil on Linen on board. During the painting...
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A New Place.
No.23. in my series of short stories. No.1227 My sister claimed this. In the foreground bottom left of this artwork is my eldest...
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Get out of bed a cyclones coming
No.21. in my series of short stories. Get out of bed a cyclones coming No.688. SOLD: The whole series of 7 was purchased by the same person. The series was Titled THE LIFE OF RILEY. 7 different paintings of various destinations and days out and about around the Pilbara. Get out of bed a cyclones coming was my first attempt at painting people in my funny way. A cyclone had not long gone through and as we usually did we would jump in the Landcruiser to take a look at all
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Sea breeze soaring.
No.20. in my series of short stories. From a series called "It's all about the birds" FOR SALE. No.1721 I am looking forward...
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