Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame

Breeze brick toilet and laundry block, at caravan park.
Painting created in collaboration with Liz.
Liz insisted that I create a breeze brick toilet block with laundry and clothes line, in the style of a probably coastal caravan park amenities block.
Liz says:
Captures seedy, paint on paint and happy desolation of a camp ground or sport oval, the mystery of what you'll find if you go in....
My older brother Russ says:
... and a childhood feel as well? Couch grass, sand, wind, the rumble of the surf?
My reply:
The genesis of the idea was the Oils song, Power and the passion. 'Too much sunshine, too much sky'. But then with my inevitable misanthropy I started painting toilet blocks beside the beach.
For a child from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, those coastal landscapes had an extraordinary grandeur. Then in my teens they became a place of intense longing. Music like the Oils takes me back in a split second to specific time and place with an intensity.
In middle age I've been exploring inland more and more, the very damaged but beautiful landscapes of the Victorian goldfields.
However, I'm not sure I trust the word 'childhood', it implies you can tie down memory and a particular perspective on a given time and place. For me the memories keep spinning away....