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I started painting at around the age of 11 or 12 after a solid decade as an apprentice to drawing everything I could see and touch (see page bottom for images of my very first paintings and a link to a separate page with a small slide show of historical career imagery in terms of media releases and other paperwork that substantiates my activities during the 80s). When I moved to Sydney in 1982 I began a process of challenging my trees and natural landscape-only policy through cataloguing the amazing built landscapes of the Sydney and Port Stephens regions. I especially focused on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Middle Harbour.
I have become particularly intrigued by the rising mist or fog phenomenon in Sydney's cooler months. Here, at times, scenes present themselves where entire sections of Sydney's Harbour is clothed in mist. It is not difficult to create quality Sydney scenes from these awe inspiring views. The Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunrise in winter often presents a luminous patchwork of light and shadow bustling amidst ghosts of both mist and ferries. Morning mist on Sydney Harbour is a celebration of the intersection of humanity and nature, a confounding of schedules a favor of the imperative dance of juxtaposed shade and blinding white opacity, and always the majesty. As a counterpoint, if you move to the opposite side of Sydney, you might witness the Blue Mountains from Dural likewise struggling against that same tonic of enveloping whiteness filtering its air and soaking its features in the humid cycles of life.
I still live in Sydney. I have a Degree in Environmental Health and am completing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. A link to the first lot
of Sydney Region Images will take the reader to one page holding both the thumbnails in
a column on the
These images represent
photographs I have taken of my paintings which were, in turn, derived from
photos I have taken of the Sydney and Port Stephens regions over the last
20 years or more (I rarely paint on location now). I provide good
quality resolution images for the paintings and, as well, have high
resolution details available for both the unsold paintings and sold
paintings, which are listed below. All unsold paintings are
available to galleries for hanging or for private purchase. As well,
I will consider any request to paint any scene, including one
supplied by the customer as a photo. In this respect, you may email me a
scanned photo
for consideration or post one to my address at page bottom. I can, upon payment of a suitable non-refundable
deposit, paint a similar scene to
Click HERE to see detailed sections of 'unsold' paintings. Note that I am still reviewing my small store of unsold paintings kept aside during 9 years+ of University studies. Since I have been so busy with studies and developing other Internet concerns, I have not sorted through the boxes containing my artworks. And since I cannot find more than 2 of these storage boxes at present, I may not have as many unsolds as I thought. At least 2 boxes were destroyed when I moved into a new unit. They were carelessly stored in a garden shed and were ruined when rainwater entered. Extensive water damage made repair and restoration impossible, so they were thrown out. What I have listed thus far as unsold is from my store of photos, some good records, and memory. And that unreliable faculty has been ravaged by a dose of pesticide poisoning since December 2000, and it fails me frequently these days. As time permits, I will update my listing of "unsolds", which will likely mean changing some images' categories to "sold". The remainder of the paintings are sold. Click HERE for detailed sections of these. If anyone 'out there' (art dealers, galleries, private purchasers) is interested in either hanging a painting, purchasing a painting, or creating a print set of some kind from extra high resolution images, please contact me at: dreedlegilf@yahoo.com. NOTE: Email me on: dreedlegilf@yahoo.com if you wish to purchase HIGH RESOLUTION jpeg (jpg) IMAGES of any of my unsold paintings. A link to the second lot of images, those of the Port Stephens Region, will again take the reader to one page holding both the thumbnails in a column on the left side of the page, and the corresponding main images which are displayed on the right, as indicated in the graphic immediately below. Here is the LINK. These images are of both my sold and unsold Port Stephens paintings.
Back in the late 80s I spent 2 days at Port Stephens. I took over 400 photos, but produced only about 12 paintings from these. These paintings were given to professional artist Neil Savage, where they all sold in the local area. If you go to the Australian Art section below and follow the link under the Masters Reproductions sub-section, you will find some details about my connection with this famous Australian artist. OF INTEREST: If you are : http://peoplepoisoned.250free.com http://global-health.0catch.com
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See some of my first paintings I did when I was an early teenager, below.
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This was one of my first paintings executed at around the age of 12 in 1967.
I did this Autumn scene as a copy from, I think, an old Walter Foster art book. My mother, sister and I all used the Walter Foster 'learn to paint books'. They were very helpful in stimulating our talents. The horrible grass in the foreground at left represents one of my first attempts to use a 'palette knife' or painting knife. I did this painting in 1970, at the age of 15.
Again, it may have been a Walter Foster book I took this scene of Rome's Colliseum from. Painted in 1973 or thereabouts. The last painting is called: The First Day, and was painted around the same time. For details of my art career see my resume here. Or see other Australian paintings I've done at: http://australianart.tripod.com FOLLOW THIS LINK TO THE SLIDE SHOW OF HISTORICAL CAREER IMAGERY. The slide show provides some minimal documentation of my artistic activities, mostly by way of pieces of paper defining exhibitions and gallery placements.
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Australian Art The link (given below) to my Australian Art will take the reader to one page holding both the thumbnails in a column on the left side of the page, and the corresponding main images which are displayed on the right, as indicated in the graphic immediately below. It is like a slide show where the larger image on the right side changes every 10 seconds. You can stop this if it is too fast for viewing by clicking the "stop" button on your browser. Then you can click whatever thumbnail image you want on the left side and it will appear on the right after a short period. Here is the LINK. These images are of both my sold and unsold paintings.
The above image is an acrylic and 'palette' knife painting of the Eildon Spillway, backlit by bright early morning light and low clouds rising from Lake Eildon behind it. The mountains and hills surrounding the township of Eildon were for me a continuous melting romance that I participated in daily as I grew up amidst its incredible beauty. Mercurial mists, towering mountains clothed in all the changeable colors of the year, and the sullen wetness of the Eildon Pondage blanketed me in heart-tugging inspiration day in and day out. I count myself very fortunate to have gorwn up in such a beautiful environment.
The images in the slide show represent either paintings created from my personal photographs, or interpretations of particularly beautiful photos from books. Some paintings are composites (that is, they include elements from many sources). All represent an interpretation of what is seen, sensed and wanted. I provide good quality resolution images for these paintings. All unsold paintings (what there are of them) are available to galleries for hanging or for private purchase. As well, I will consider any request to paint any scene, including one supplied by the customer. In this respect, you may email me a photo for consideration. I will not, in most instances, produce another painting like these displayed. I generally choose not to attempt to resurrect an image, but prefer to leave what I have produced as a testament to an unrecoverable point in time, never to be revisited. This overall sense includes the romance of the image,and the melancholy of younger days with fewer aches and pains. If I do choose to reincarnate an image, it may be similar, but never the same.
In some cases, particular scenes become favorites. In this respect, then, I have painted these scenes more than once. In the character of many artists, I may paint a scene from photos I have taken at different times of the day, and from varying angles. Sometimes, though not often these days, I will paint on location. I do not produce many paintings these days. I am generally disgusted at the habit of artists for locking onto a style and churning out as many of these 'technique' paintings as possible. I do appreciate the poverty of art, and the need to put food on the table though, and I have been guilty of generating rubbish in my much younger and less sophisticated days. However, in nearing 50 years of age, I am trying to use other talents to generate income, though with not a great deal of success. My art is reserved for intermittent painting now because I suffer a great deal of joint pain (polyarthralgias), especially in my right wrist - my painting hand. This pain developed from exposure to a synthetic pyrethroid termiticide - a PESTICIDE (see the box below for details). When I do infrequently paint, I spend many months on each work (even years now), as well as interminable time analyzing each image. Quality is my only concern now. And that quality includes the necessary legacy of idiosyncratic images that largely express my soul, even much more than the image reflecting an actual place in space and time.
If you open this LINK, you will be taken to a page displaying all the thumbnails from the above Australian Art slide show. This page provides informational details for each painting. A link to a second sequence of images, the Masters Reproductions, will again take the reader to one page holding both the thumbnails in a column on the left side of the page, and the corresponding main images which are displayed on the right, as indicated in the graphic immediately below. Here is the LINK. These images are of both my sold and unsold Masters Reproductions paintings, these being acrylic and oil copies and interpretations of famous paintings by artists such as Hans Heysen and Frederick McCubbin.
The above image is that of Hans Heysen's Droving Into The Light, (1921). It is an acrylic painting, and likely the very best copy of any I have done. If you open this LINK, you will be taken to a page displaying all the thumbnails from the above Masters Reproductions slide show. This page provides some additional informational details for each painting. Do you want to learn how I paint? I had originally determined to construct a website around my painting techniques. As of late 2003, a serious delay has occurred with its processing. It may never be completed (because I was badly poisoned with PESTICIDE: http://poisonedpeople.com/). I had intended to provide basic details as to how I approach drawing and painting. My approach is not necessarily orthodox or technical. I favor a more personal, esoteric and metaphysical orientation. However, severe joint pains and crippling Chronic Fatigue have left me with few resources to complete this task.
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