Monday, December 24, 2012

Hints of a Front Coming Through

I collected my brother from the airport and on our wandering way home we went to St Kilda pier. Above were these bands of clouds marking an incoming front.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Something I wrote a while ago

These things were written awhile ago and when I look back they still seem ok.

Sadness
wafts around me
it's trying to descend
to land on me
crush me to dust

God I know you're here pervading everything, holding everything
and yet
I live in faith - holding on
a sort of contingent surety
I live in Paradox
I know and yet don't
faithfulness withers around
people fall away
despair tempts
and yet I know
you are
just are
eternal love & compassion
the unwavering
presence
of creation
bearing all
making all

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

A Children's Nativity painting begins

This evening was the years end of Jaffas, the afterschool primary age club. We finished with a sausage sizzle and the beginnings of painting a nativity to put in front of the Church. My inspiration for the design was Giotto originally, but as you can see there's not much Giotto in this, in fact none. I love the way  that things become what they will be.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Sunday with painting


Both of these paintings have been hanging around for quite a while because I could see no obvious way forward. On Sunday I got them out and played. I think they're better. Probably finished. They feel at the moment like they've reached stasis.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

From an unresolved painting





 The elements are fine, but how to get them to relate together.

Just lovely.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

At Mt. Dandenong

Last Monday we went to Ringwood to visit Athena's mum in her new place. After that we drove up to Mt. Dandenong, to which neither of us had been for many years. Late Spring and the weather was delightful. The winding roads and trees gave an arcadian sense of the world. The view towards Port Philip Bay. After this, relying on the sat/nav we wound through the ranges to the freeway and then home.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Aeagus and Aerin


Two paintings, sketches, that express a corner of my work that I enjoy making, but don't seem to employ enough 'suffering' to be serious and yet they 'say' something valuable.

In the garden at the moment


I can't say that I know a lot about gardens, but it does surprise me how the beauty of flowers, of the natural world, can break through my into consciousness and make an impression.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Aemy and Aeneas


The, almost, end result for Aemy and Aeneas. I'm happy with how they look, but still have to deal with cracking, which will require more fiddling with mediums.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Our Indian Sojourn

Here are a selection of photos from our Indian sojourn.

 Jama Masjid
Raj Ghat &  Gandhi's tomb


Humayun's Tomb


Home decoration


Landour Bazaar, Mussorie

Sinkunda Deva

 Yes we saw the Dalai Lama

Looking from Mussorie down to the plains

 The ubiquitous Taj Mahal

The mosque that is part of the complex


Fatehpur Sikri




Palace of the Winds in Jaipur

The Amber Fort, Jaipur




Instrument at the Observatory, Jaipur


Pushkar

Jodhpur at night

Guards at Jaswant Thada

Part of Jaswant Thada

Meherangarh Fort

 Blue houses of Jodhpur

Inside the Meherangarh Museum

A Duhrie maker

Celebrating Ganesh 

Rankapur Temple 


Udiapur 


 Rajahstani dance

Into the Udiapur Palace Museum 

On Udiapur lake

Mumbai evening at the seashore

From the hotel rooftop


Inside St. Francis Church, Fort Cochi

Fish for sale at Fort Cochi

Keralan Dancers

 A houseboat on the Kerelan backwaters





 A decorated truck

 Cherai beach

Cherai lagoon, chinese style fishing



Cherai lagoon

Since I last posted. Some things

  Some work in various mediums. Mostly watercolour, but also pencil and tempera.