Tag: Art
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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…
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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…
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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,…