'Brisbane Central' - Work in Progress for the 'Brisbane Landmark Exhibition'

It's 'coming along' nicely...I thought I'd get bored with this one, but I'm actually enjoying it. 

oil on stretched canvas - 101 x 76cm

'Close up' of the figures......

Sanctuary Cove Art Festival

The 'Sanctuary Cove Art Festival' is on this weekend, Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th June, 10am to 4pm.  The address is - Pavilion C, Rotunda Lawn, Masthead Way, Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast.

These are the 5 artworks I will be exhibiting at the festival....

'Creek Ramble' - oil on canvas - 125 x 79cm

'Off to the Beach' - oil on canvas - 75 x 60cm

'Little Girls on the Beach' - oil on canvas - 35 x 29cm

'Surfs Up' - Pastel - 63 x 46cm

'The Bouquet' - oil on canvas - 144 x 113cm

'Fruit Pickin' - Maleny Art Awards 2010 - People's Choice

'Fruit Pickin' was awarded 'People's Choice' at this years 'Maleny Art Awards'.

Thank you to all the public....my fans!....for voting for me. 

I know I say the same thing all the time, but it always amazes me that, from all the entries, the public chooses mine as 'best of show'.
Thank you so much.

I also won a 'Commended' award.

Brisbane Landmark Exhibition - 'Work in Progress'

Well...my next challenge is the 'Brisbane Landmark Exhibition'.
This exhibition runs in conjunction with the 'Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize'. Only fifteen artists are selected to participate in this exclusive exhibition.....this year, I have been fortunate enough to be invited to enter 4 artworks.
The exhibition is designed to display paintings which depict well known and maybe some lesser known Brisbane landmark icons.

So this is the first of my entries....it's still a 'work in progress'.  For those of you who don't know Brisbane, this scene is the intersection near 'Central Train' station in the city.  I haven't thought of a title as yet, but for now I will call it 'Brisbane Central'.

It's in oil, on a stretched canvas measuring 101 X 76cm.

I'm really pleased with the composition and how the under-painting has turned out.  It's certainly very different to my usual 'figurative landscapes'....it's a subject matter I've never attempted before.

The Brisbane Landmark exhibiton will be on display in conjunction with the 'Landscape Art Prize', in the foyer of Waterfront Place.  1 Eagle Street, Brisbane.  From Monday 13 September till Friday 24 September (7am - 6pm)

'Late Afternoon Beach Walk' (Bullock Beach, Caloundra)

'Late Afternoon Beach Walk'

(Bullock Beach, Caloundra)

Oil on canvas

51 x 41cm