Last December we took back our house in Wooli from permanent rental and found that it required quite a bit of work after 14 years of others living in it.
I spent quite a bit of time travelling between Sydney and Wooli ( about 500km and a 7 hour drive) doing repairs and organising work. This meant that I haven’t painted very much the last 7 months.
I did paint 3 paintings of the Wooli area for the Wooli art show held in Wooli over Easter.
I’ve very happy to tell you that my painting Wooli mount received the painting award , “ highly commended”, and my painting of Wooli landslide had a red dot when I arrived for the opening.
In May I was again in Wooli, having been asked by the builder to come up to discuss the work required to rebuild the patio roofing. While I was up 5here some of my ex Telstra workmates convinced me to attend a reunion at Copeton Dam ( near Inverell NSW). This group have been holding a reunion there since many of them were made redundant 21 years ago. I left Telstra with a redundancy after 28 years service and was a but over a year before their mass exit.
So I had a good time catching up with the many friends I had made and worked with all those years ago.
I tell you this because it was my first time I had been to Copeton Dam and it was about 98% full, a Rae occurrence apparently. I had since painted the scene of the dam that I saw early morning while I was walking Wilson there. You can see it on this site “Copeton Dam, early morning”
I have another couple of paintings after that, “Almost there, (Lord Howe Island)” oils on a wood panel, based on a yacht race to LHI.
Also I painted “Pier 1”, a view of pier1 in Walsh bay Sydney harbour, as seen from pier 2/3.
And finally as I have been feeling the cold here in Sydney, I pulled out a photo I took in Caloundra, and called Water fun Caloundra”
Now I’m busy making new panels, but the cold weather is making the glue cute slowly.