SPOTLIGHT ARTWORK


After the Storm - Bondi  (1993)
Size: 120cm W x 110cm H
Medium: Acrylic, gold leaf, sand grounding, 
collage on stretched canvas, framed
PRIVATE COLLECTION

There is some pathos associated with this artwork. 
It was inspired by the loss to us of a young man in his 20's who turned heads 
wherever he went not only for his natural good looks 
but his unpretentious, simple, honest, genuine open nature.

The finished painting shows him walking alone along an empty Bondi Beach 
following a storm.

Actual flotsam and jetsam collected from this beach 
has become the landscape of Bondi in the artwork.

There are metaphors that can be drawn from this canvas.
The painting makes me wonder what sort of a legacy we are leaving 
for the young people who are following us.

AFTER A STORM COMES A RAINBOW FOLLOWED BY THE SUN.