from the past..

Since I've not been feltmaking lately, I'm posting some
archival stuff.
'Ages ago'= this was probably made
before you were born ~ certainly before computers.
I lived & painted for years in Dalhousie, India;
the mandala is hand-lettered with the 108 centreing exercises
from Zen Flesh Zen Bones.

I did a series of paintings on Chuang Tsu's famous butterfly dream,
(& also a book on the I Ching, 64 images of the hexagrams),
then a series about the kind of dreams typically found in certain
homeopathic remedies ~ this one was for Nux Vomica.

I don't know if I can get them to stay in the order I want.. no, well,
don't plan to use the afternoon working it out, let's just say this is
a small sample from many years, there's more in the posts
about our book Burning Questions
The image at top is 1/3 of a 5 metre long painting
for an educational facility, "endangered species".
Then there's the dream remedy, followed by one of the small
gouache on paper, of stones found at beach,
& one of the large acrylic on canvas paintings : "Beach"
The night-face mountain is gouache on paper.I'd still like to paint, yet it's not happening that way,
have mainly been using a computer for last 7 or 8 years.

inheritance

Last year I was walking at the beach most days,
often with my camera.
Somehow that has linked to thoughts of family, & what we inherit
from further back than' living memory'. I wrote out some thoughts,
added other photos from my travels. Sorry it's hard to read,
I didn't want to make it any bigger, but click to enlarge.

old photographs

Scanning some old photos & wishing I could time-travel
back to the 70's with digital cameras,
as many of these are from contact prints,
or badly scratched negs that have been lost. & now there must be
4 or 5 hundred million more people since when I lived in India.
Probably the most amazing times were the Pushkar mela
in about 1971, & a week on
a picnic boat down the Jhelum River in Kashmir.
But living up the hill from the Dalhousie bazaar, for years;
& staying with Indian friends as part of their family,
being in Varanasi for months ~ then it felt ok to
photograph the people I saw.

Dream picture

An edition of 4, for this one. It's 28 inches wide, & looks best

on glossy paper, though it then needs glass, which usually
means reflections. It could still work, as the image plays on that.

clear winter days

One morning I went with friends to the lighthouse

to watch for whales, another day we stopped near some

casuarinas, & only later did I see what was there.

Oh, & here's one of the pages from the book

A Recipe for Dreaming, published by Penguin;

Bryce Courtenay's words, my photographs,

it's available in many Australian bookstores.

last pages of Burning Questions

please go to new blog for up to date information about
Burning Questions, & some of the 46 full colour spreads.

2 new prints from Indochina trip

click on image for larger view

From my Indochina trip,

2 new limited edition prints.

"Temple" is 24 inches wide

"Goldleafed" is approx 12 x 9 inches

Giclee prints, both in an edition of 16
(email me for details,
see address under 'about me' in righthand column)