A SHORT TOUR OF BRUGES VIA MY DIGITAL “GOUACHES”
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EUREKA REFLECTIONS
A HANDFUL OF DIGITAL “GOUACHES” OF THE VIEWING FLOOR OF AUSTRALASIA’S TALLEST BUILDING
A few years back my wife and I went up the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. The views of the wonderful city and its surrounding countryside were of course splendid, but it was the cleverly laid-out viewing deck itself which excited me as an artist and a photographer. Hopefully, these images here reveal why that was…
AROUND AND ABOUT – SAN GIMIGNANO
A SERIES OF DIGITAL “GOUACHES” FROM OUR RECENT TRIP TO SAN GIMIGNANO IN TUSCANY
DIVIDING LINES
ONE PLACE -TWO REALITIES

Together with the pictures in my previous post, these few images are my oh-so-humble acknowledgement to my favourite painting “The Little Street”, by my favourite artist, Johannes Vermeer. If I’ve got things right the linkage between my puny digital dabbles and the greatest masterpiece painting in the history of Western Art should be pretty obvious. But do be sure to look beyond the sublimely painted edifice and brickwork to the four characters who inhabit the canvas. The house, for all it’s glory is merely the device, and that’s the point and the joy and the thrill of Vermeer – more than any artist before or since – sorting out his devices from his themes. This is what I’ve tried to bear in mind when making the images presented here…
CHESAPEAKE BAY & SOFT-SHELL CRAB
FRENCH GIRL
A small series of “virtual studies” made in the gouache style. The original images date back to the mid 80’s.














































































