Introduction

A different pathway

Not a career for me

First job

An indicator of things to come

Foreshadowing

Tertiary study

Country service

Particular ambitions

I would like to be an artist

Not done art in school

The Wollongong art scene

Experiment with being an artist

First experiments

A seminal change

A revelation

Opening a door

Acrylic paint

The intensity of acrylic paint

Crisp edges

Subtle colour effects

Visual flashing

Stalactites and stalagmites

First solo exhibition

Showing with young contemporaries

Joining the Contemporary Arts Society

First sale

Approaching Frank Watters

First exhibition at Watters

The Engine exhibition

On the bus with Ken Reinhard

Pooh-poohing old fashioned work

Celebrating modern things

Very different works

Looking for other exhibitors

Quite an occasion

The catalogue

Introduced to Kym Bonython

The second Sydney exhibition

Discovered fluorescent paints

Glowing sculptures

First show of flourescent paintings in Australia

Objectives of sculpture

Uncomfortable with sculpture as a term

Sculpture and paintings use the same colour and forms

The Field exhibition

Alan Oldfield saying

The fashion in art

Going in other directions

Work not a result of fashion

The Flotta Lauro Travelling Arts Scholarship

Doubts about work

Confirming direction

No major effect on work

Different themes or series

Exhibition as an entity in itself

Examples of themes

Celtic Spaces

A consistency through the works

Adding black and white to the palette

A progression of the work

Accentuate the optical vibration

White provides extra brilliance

Illusions to the seen world

Macbeth

The Stack series

Great poet of pollution

Poetry and art works

A tentative step towards figuration

Separating house from studio

More burden than inconvenience

Missing contemplation

Ideas on paper

Sketches and models

Continuity, constraint or strength

Continued enthusiasm for the work

Preview of next show

The best work ever done

Two colour arrangements

Thank you

Credits