Nude studies

Evolving nude.  Pencil then acrylic on paper.

Gravestone

Along the same lines.  

Experimenting with composition and style.

Memento mori

/mɪˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːri,-rʌɪ/

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   n. an object kept as a reminder of the inevitability of death (fr Latin).

   
   

   
   

   
   

   I'm fond of this one.  The first acrylic I painted, enjoying the tones in the Dutton Park Cemetery under the trees.  Also a great reminder. 

   
   

   Last night I woke and had trouble getting back to sleep.  Worrying unproductively.  I picked up a book at random from the shelf and flicked it open to ... Schopenhauer on life as suffering and the consolation of embracing it.  Suitably consoled.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   Memento mori

   2012

   
   

   Sue George

   
   

   acrylic on canvas

   35 x 35 cm

   
   

Women can't paint

Words of wizzdom from Georg Baselitz: 

 Women don’t paint very well. It’s a fact,” the 75-year-old German artist told the German newspaper Der Spiegel.  

Women can't paint

2015

Sue George

acrylic and liquid graphite on paper

140 x 190 cm

Perspective

Keeping everything in perspective.  Mornings at Barneyview.

The clearing |charcoal|

The clearing
2014

Charcoal on paper

Suspending time

Inspired by Guy Maestri's roadkill paintings.  The dead rosellas.  Suspended.  Their beauty captured and revered.  Suspended for a moment in time.

Rosella
2014

Guy Maestri
Oil on board



I saw these works at the Melbourne Art Fair and they were breathtaking.  At the same time Israel was bombing the life out of Palestine and I couldn't help thinking of all the lives (colourful, sacred lives) extinguished like roadkill during the bombing.  No one seemed to care.  I wanted to take those lives and suspend them, Maestri-like.  Reverence them.  Remember them.

Roadkill

2014

Sue George

Acrylic on board

The time of day

What a difference a few hours makes.

The clearing (midday)

2014

Acrylic on paper

The clearing (afternoon)
2014
Acrylic on canvas

The clearing (midday)
2014
Acrylic on canvas

The clearing (afternoon)
2014
Acrylic on paper

Interstice /ɪnˈtəːstɪs/

An intervening space, especially a small one.

I love this word.  I've been absent.  I am not a faithful blogger.  I get busy and distracted.  I'm not normally avid of people who insist on filling the interstices, as renovators so often do, making sure they obliterate all sign of the gaps.  I love the interstices.

But here I am filling the gap.  I thought I would bring my blog up to date.  Artworks from the interstices.

Ian's gate
2014

Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm

Mountainscape series

I created a series of small mountainscapes with the same focus (background/foreground duality and emphasis on negative space).  This series acrylic and liquid graphite on canvas.

Mountainscapes

I have been painting mountainscapes inspired by the Scenic Rim.  It is the negative space that inspires me.  The white out.  I want to capture the negative space.  The free space.  The escape from the escarpment.  I am inspired by Frank Kline to work on the negative space until you can't tell which is intended as the negative space.