Parramatta River from Kissing Point, looking east.

Acrylic! This is a new medium for me. I wanted to paint outside, but it's raining today. I used the back of the car for protection, and the few drips that fell onto the canvas didn't matter.

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Shepherds Bay from under Ryde Bridge

"Plein Air" painting. I set up my easel under Ryde Bridge for this one. I love the natural framing of one bridge by another. Parramatta River is about two blocks from my home in Putney. Luckily I did not attract attention. Joggers and bike riders kept going. One old classmate passed by and we had a chat.

30" x 40" (76 x 102cm) 

Oil on Canvas

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Workshop with Alexander McKenzie

I had a fabulous day learning new techniques from Alexander McKenzie on Sunday 27th March. It was held at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery a few miles south of Sydney.

Alex instructed a 'master class' on how to break the process of painting into stages: the sketch, the blocking in, the information and mark-making layer, fine-tuning. Designed for busy working people who can only paint on occasions, this "stages' approach allows one to progress with a work... despite interruptions.

I love to see how artists arrange their paint, and this is Alexander's palette.

Alexander (with pony tail) is giving instruction to two fellow work-shoppers.

He had a half-started painting to use for demonstration.

Alex with his own work, which he used for demo-ing.

Children of the Pantheon

"Children of the Pantheon" explores the juxtaposition of youth with age, summer with winter, the new world with the old, and the possibility of Rome being inundated by flood waters when the global change finally comes... and the little nippers of Bondi Beach take over the world!

90cm x 175cm 

(35" x 68")

Oil on linen

King of the Hill

This snowgum is growing on the main range track near Charlotte Pass. It is one of many aged, weather worn trees that are surviving in one of the most exposed areas in all of Australia. 

Oil on canvas, 48" x 36", (120cm x 90cm)

Snow Gum Tree in the Australian Alps

Come Back to Me, Eucalyptus Pauciflora III

by Shirley Peters

90 x 120cm

Oil on Canvas

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Carnival Time...

This is another work from my Basilica Series. 

The Little Dancer at The Great Wall

Oil on Canvas 120 cm x 95 cm

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Always good to be able to post a finished painting.

I wanted to make a dramatic statement that relates to the tragedy of the building of the Great Wall, which was constructed on the Northern border of China in the Ming Dynasty. Thousands of men died making this wall, and it was unsuccessful in stopping the nomadic tribes from invading. I found it sad and beautiful.

Within this setting I have put the  'Little Dancer of Fourteen Years', a bronze sculpture by Edward Degas. It is a subjective link that pulls this great desolate garrison into the civilised world of French Art, or takes the little dancer to impossibly far corners of the earth.

I previous posts I have shown the original sketch and early photos of this work.

Relationships between the viewer and the picture

I'm paraphrasing Eric Fiscl here...

There's a difference between a painting of one person, two people, or a painting of three or more people. A painting of one person is a one-to-one relationship. You look at the single figure ... is she/he confronting you or turning away, or luring you?

A painting of two people makes you, the viewer, a voyeur. You can be witnessing the dynamic between them.

Three or more people can become a dynamic... it can be a family group, a work environment, or just people on the street. You can become one of the many, or removed from them like being in a coffee shop, looking out a window.

Fresh and Wet!

Surfing the Canals: Timeout
By S. Peters
75 x 90cm
Oil on (triple primed) Canvas


Here is the latest painting for 'Fresh" Exhibition.
I have already hung all the other works, but this one looked so underdone. So I bought it home and repainted it. I'm happy with it now. Of course, it will still be wet when hanging at the gallery, but not to worry. We didn't call it "Fresh" for nothing!

Boys Own Adventures

I have been preparing three new works for a group exhibition next weekend. 

Here are two works finished, and I have one more to go. I'll post the third one hopefully tomorrow night. 

Four Girls in the Notre Dame

 Just a rough underpainting at this stage. But I thought I should post to show my new project. This is the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It is very sacred, and we heard choral music when we visited. mmmm.

Mateship over Three Wars

A group portrait covering three wars.
World War I, World War II, Afghanistan.