Examples of works, Part II

Examples of works, Part II

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Gallery Sale for Fathers' Day!!!

1st ever Fathers’ Day SALE of drawings and prints!

I always have trouble with photographing glass, so sorry about the reflections.

These are all framed, but I also have several as yet unframed original drawings on both charts and maps, as well as various other prints - if you are interested let me know. If you’re local in Albany, Western Australia you can come see them, or I can email photos. 

Drawing, archival ink on vintage maritime chart, (total size 52x52cm) Black frame, white mat. $75

All shipping/post is at your expense. (I’m not sure of postage costs, as sizes and weights vary, will provide exact amount before you need to commit and I only charge what the post costs.)  I’m making this album publicly visible so you can share it with your friends. They are advertised elsewhere, and first to indicate interest will get the item. Happy to reserve/layby/whatever, just contact me here.

Drawing, archival ink on vintage maritime chart, solid wooden frame (prob jarrah)( total size 60cmx50cm)  $165

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Archival print of original drawing,  single fish (total size 37x30 cm) $40

Drawing, archival ink on vintage maritime chart, “Off Naturaliste Channel” (total size 47x37cm) $65
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Drawing, archival ink on vintage maritime chart, “Shell Harbour”( total size 36x45cm) $75

Archival print of original drawing,  “see caution #6” (total size 44x38 cm) $50

Drawing, archival ink on vintage maritime chart, “Tasman Sea” (total size 42x33cm) $75

Drawing, archival ink on vintage maritime chart, “Florida” recycled frame (total size 50x40cm)  $75

Drawing, archival  ink on watercolour paint, watercolour paper, (total size 25x20cm) $30

Archival print of original drawing, “Duo” (total size 35x52cm) $45

 Here are some samples of some of the actual drawings, to give you a better idea of the detail.

Aunt Sadie, Alice and the Easter Bunny

Last week, I picked up a copy of one -well, two- of my favourite books for 50c.  Today, I picked it up and re-read what is one of my very favourite opening passages ever:

"There is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh. The table is situated, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, in the hall, in front of a huge open fire of logs.  Over the chimney piece plainly visible in the photograph hangs an entrenching tool, with which, in 1915, Uncle Matthew had whacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a dugout.It is still covered with blood and hairs, an object of fascination to us as children....There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment - click goes the camera and on goes life... " Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

I love all things Mitford - fiction, biography, autobiography. I love them individually and as a group. I can read and re-read them and see them and hear them and forgive them their foibles.  I have been sorting out some old photos of my own family, and the opening passage of the book goes on to talk about the qualities of those frozen moments in time and their sepia-ness. 

My own old photos reminded me of the smells and the textures of my own childhood with surprising clarity.  I found an old teacup in the opshop last week, a sad reminder of what was my favourite Auntie's best teaset: the one used for Sunday afternoon tea, birthdays and get-togethers.  This teacup is well past its finest but just seeing it I can almost taste the scones and the sponge cake with icing sugar on top. I bought it and brought it home just to keep that feeling.


I have other bits and pieces, nothing valuable, but little fragments of lives.  Another Auntie's brooch - I can't really remember her face, although I know what she looked like; but I can remember the sense of her, and being given the brooch by my Uncle when she died.  It's not a valuable brooch, but there was a sense of being grown up when he gave it to me when I was about 8.

That one diamonte brooch is probably why I love vintage jewellery as I do. It reminds me of the Aunts, and great-aunts, of being taken to CWA meetings, of hanging with the cousins, and picking raspberries and real gooseberries and dress-ups. 

I remember the Uncles, too, of course; the cardigans and the sheds and the pigeons and dogs. But they seemed somehow not to be the centre of things: the women were constant motion, food and talk and movement and kids.


In my case, the colour is not so much sepia but rather that strange intense colour of slides and photos from the late 50's and early 60's, drifting into the yellowish tones and uncertain focus of the 70's snapshot.

I have continued my fascination with all things Alice and clockwork with some new pendants featuring Alice and some vintage pocketwatch faces, some Alice brooches, and I am working on some drawings of Alice, and some nursery rhymes. Given the time of year there are also some bunnies in the bathtub. I'm having some trouble with loading images, so haven't spent too much time on images which may disappear.  When I have some better photos and a more reliable way of leaving them up I will add some more.

Alice - a tribute and some other stuff

Some more little things from the gallery.....





This is my tribute to Alice in Wonderland - maybe the first of a small series, I have some others in the making.



A couple of little drawings, silly little things really.






And, of course, even my little pony grows up......and goes goth.




and Obie, who likes to help.

An occasional gallery

Made, concocted, created, upcycled, recycled, and sometimes sold by me.