Richard Diebenkorn

Our inspiration this week is Diebenkorn who is more famous for his abstracts. However he did a series on figures that are pretty startling in colour.


This painting is more an exploration of colour and how it leads the eye. It's like graphic art which I have done previously. Obvious non literal use of colour. A great candid photo that was cropped to focus on the rock forms going one direction, balanced by the figures going another direction.

Still life ala Giorgio Morandi

We are doing a series based on Ochre's favourite artists. Morandi is famous for his very quiet and limited palette still life of bottles. Here's my attempt. The coffee pot is obviously a psychological outsider to the rest of the pots; intentionally so.

Glorious summer

This is my latest painting which I do like a lot.


It's of North Coogee baths which is sadly no more as those fierce April storms have moved the rocks and altered the baths so that council had to close it for safety reasons.

But one glorious summer day I was there and the waters were so inviting and compelling that it was with great difficulty that I tore myself away.