NEW STUDIO Creating Another ARTHOUSE THAT NURTURES, INSPIRES & HEALS -
Merrian, Chris and myself around 2001/2
PassionFish Front Door
Spring Buds
How Long is a Ball of String? Desert space Mt Leibig . It can seem like forever, out remote away from Home. Local people usually always friendly and welcoming and kids with their big heart-warming smiles.
Repairing my Inner House
Jill's Curtains, PassionFish
Buddha in my Front Window
Lake Reflections
View from the Reiki Centre (Life) Warrnambool. I did my Reiki 1 and 2 there in the 80's. a real life-saver transitioning from Academic students to Croyden Community school and the upheavel there. Along with managing a fast growing son busting to get out into Life himself.
Mt Leibig 2018. My view across from my front gate.
My Honey Ant painting from Mt Leibig and Indian screen
Harry, Katherine days
Family Table Mum's Vase
Harry at PassionFish
2021 Flowers on my Grandmother's sideboard.
Stephen's Pot 2019
Reflections and Megan's Basket of Meditation
Early Exhibition at PassionFish 2001 Merrian's Painting on display. Photo taken by Merrian Dennis.
Ruby in Troupie heading back to Mt Leibig
Mt Sugarloaf with trees.
Fridge Door , Katherine. Amazing what our little fridge door displays tell us.
Desert reflections
2021 Flowers
"Travelling To and Fro...." PassionFish
Camperdown Kid
Meeting Sandra Bowcutt and Family way out in desert at Lake Gregory Culture Camp. I was running a "Grow Your heart Strong", painting workshop with students and their families there. Sandra was with architect husband who was showing locals at Mulan how to build straw bale and mudbrick houses. Their son was soaking up the Culture. Sandra was introducing pottery.
Home 2018
Ruby at the Lake
Flowers for the studio. Love buying Podger's Flowers for a treat for myself.
Fossil Find 2018 Nth side of Lake Bullen Merri
2018 Lake Tree Embrace
Flowers in Chinese Vase at PassionFish
Barb's Fruit Bowl on Family Table . Bowls of fruit and vases of flowers give me a sense of my own wellbeing. I collect pots. they remind me of people and souls.
Front Window Image from Katherine. NT 2018
Ruby at Hawke's Nest Rd Pomborneit
Considering Identity. Corangamite.
Christmas time 2019
Pepe in our house in Falcon just outside of Mandurah
PassionFish Cat
2022 Resting Place
Ruby staying cool in Vic's Summer heat whilst I was Up North. photo by Anthony Van Leuran
I brought a Crocodile home with me
Paintings on walls at Caravan Park
Christmas Lilies
Out of the corner of My Eye. PassionFish
Katherine wooden figure, my solice at the end of an often very rough day teaching att the High School. Ruby and I walked it off each night up past the Council Chambers on the outskirts of Katherine.
Light Coming In PassionFish Back Door
PassionFish Loft
Darwin Mercure
Darwin Pool
Home again
Old school Flying in Darwin
Loved the hot , steamy nights
Settling back in the Studio
Seed Pckets Port Campbell
Nightfall in Darwin
Honey the cat from Katherine
Ruby exploring summer grasses at the Nth side of the lake
Julian at the Lake, Approx '81
Darwin Cat
Darwin Living
Christmas back in the Studio
Katherine Painting
My Table, No 4, Katherine Caravan Park
Katherine Mural at Katherine Caravan Park
Spreading my wings
Frogs and the Wet
Camperdown Trees
2018 Fishing area Lake Bullen Merri
2023 beautiful day at the Lake
2018 Camperdown Trees
2023 View across the water
Camperdown Trees
Southern View of Lake Bullen merri
2023 Reflections lake Bullen Merri
PassionFish Flower
Christmas Katherine
Back yard Katherine
PassionFish Windows 2020
Front Window PassionFish
PassionFish Interior
Window space 2019
Walking to School ,Mt Leibig. Life's Treasure lost.
Home with my Family Painting.
Julian's Room ."Indigenous Heart" Warrandyte
Kalumburu teacher at Kununarra
Rita Floating -Inservice for Child Protection Kununarra
Kalumburu
Ruby Waiting for me, Katherine, 2017
Christmas day
Ruby and the trees Katherine
Wet season Coming in
Ark in my Lounge Room. My fav place coming into Paris at the airport was an upstairs restaurant called "Arc du Ceil". I frequently use this book bookcase in my windows because it remnds me of being there.
PassionFish Pot
2018 PassionFish
Passionfish scene with Caroline's Painting
Red path- back steps Mt Leibig
Gate at school house Mt Leibig
Desert Heart as the Rain Comes in
PassionFish Light
Driving down the West Coast Rd W.A. Broome to Perth. Prayer Trees
Kajol at Film workshop in studio
Back Door Summer
In service for Child protection Kununarra. Despite Mandatory reporting for Sexual Abuse coming in in the West at this time, whistleblowers weren't given much help. About 2010 I saw a newspaper report that 3000 cases had been reported and about 300 followed up. The Catholic Education office under the charge of the Bishop of Broome that I chased up to report issues in Balgo whilst teaching there, took about 3 mths to get an appointment. They then duly wrote my concern down and filed it away. No contact. no acknowledgement, no redress as the statute of limitations was a friend indeed to the Church in this way circumventing any further legal problems when the finite time had passed.
Katherine spare room for grandchildren
Harry, Katherine days
Bernhard st flats, Katherine
Tree Talk Katherine
Packing Up Christmas time
Across the street in the moonlight
PassionFish
Back from Katherine with Honey the cat at PassionFish
My College classroom at Mt Leibig. My principal kept an immaculate school. The students had a bi-language approach with Luritja/Pintupi being used alongside English. Great idea.
After the rain, School garden at Mt Leibig, N.T.
Katherine Christmas day
ABC Film Project with Emily Blissland at PassionFish on freezing cold day.
Lakespace
Giant woman in Western Landscape
Healing hand Postcard, Broome
Musician at Roebuck Bay Beach, Broome
Jill's Place, Bindoon, W.A.
Town Beach Cafe, Broome
Roebuck Bay, Broome
Man on Cable beach
"Apple Annie", Childhood piece for Colac Exhibition
Early PassionFish. Staying out at Jancourt
Pot for PassionFish
A Woman of Many Colours
Pole at lake Bullen Merri
"Apple Annie" local landscape.
Volcanic Country
ClockTower Bells
Growing PassionFish Backyard
julian's room Tandarook
Early Reflection PassionFish
Julian's Collage/ Painting, Growing up in Country. Lake Bullen Merri
View to Mt Leura from the ClockTower
Reflection in Petra Reece's studio in Montmorency.
Indigenous Flowers, PassiionFish
Reconnecting with Irish Ancestry. Visit back to Ireland in the 90s
Merrian's pic in studio between trips
