Tag: Art

  • Artist in the spotlight: Jenny Watson – don’t fence me in

    Artist in the spotlight: Jenny Watson – don’t fence me in

    Initially the composition of this painting unsettled me; too much fence not enough dog. I spent a good deal of time contemplating before I realised that the placement of the dog is a key to understanding the work. Cyclone Fence with Great Dane is an ambitious early work by Australian  artist Jenny Watson completed in…

  • Van Gogh

    Van Gogh

    An immersive video experience of Van Gogh’s work at Lume, Melbourne.

  • Sunset ahoy Airlie Beach

    There’s nothing quite like the ocean colour in Tropical North Queensland. It must be a combination of the bright sunlight and the shallow waters that lie within the Great Barrier Reef. Even as the sun sinks, the water still has the vestiges of that intense turquoise. Many years ago when I lived in Melbourne, I…

  • Sun strikes in the Rainforest: Paluma Range National Park

    By the side of the Andree Griffin Rainforest Walk at Paluma township, the sunlight caught this elegantly twisted buttress of a massive, strangler fig carcass bought to life by its velvet green coat of moss. The tropical rainforest of the Paluma Range feels lusher, and more encompassing than the subtropical littoral rainforest remnants close to…

  • Oz Slow Travel

    In Queensland, Australia we are fortunate to be in a COVID-19 free bubble. Within the state we can travel freely, taking COVIDSafe measures such as recording our visits to public places, and being more thorough in our infection prevention measures. So, Queenslanders are, like me, taking to the open roads.  Queensland is a vast state,…