Walkthrough the studio

Introduction

Details of his birth

Starting to paint

Better to paint that being a railway man

Coming back to Sydney

Shaping ideas

Around the kitchen table

Leaving school

How to wash a brush

Learning painting

Too young for East Sydney Tech

What classes

Manuscript lettering

Live classes?

Fellow of National Art School

Becoming a commercial illustrator

Delivering lantern slides

Developing illustrational skills

Commercial versus fine art

Illustrating for local newspaper

Lingering influence of commercial art

Reviewer comment better than the art

How many friends

No peer group

London via Grenoble

In London

Canada via the United States

Travel in Europe

The effect of London

Art in Paris

The Tate and British Museum

Titian

Favourite picture in the National Gallery

Overwhelmed by Constable and Turner

A gestural approach

Loved drawing in London

Parents ill

Working in Vancouver

Becoming a draftsman

Father sick

Working back in Sydney

Living in Neutral bay

The Haymarket series

Meeting Margeret

Starting with the ABC

Wining a painting prize

Having to work fast

Upsetting the boss

The ABC symbol

When are you going to support your wife

The reason for the Europe trip

The Commonwealth Institute London exhibition

Spain via France

The Harkness Fellowship

To the US

Impact of New York and Spain

The peasant's village

Work not popular

Travelling the USA

After the fellowship

The importance of graphic work

The main thing in life

Starting some sculpture

Drawings as preperations

Still drawing

An urban expressionist painter

City person not country

What is the city

Travelling the world with a sketchbook

Paris every year

Not a language mind

Seeing everything visually

Painterly vigor

Reconstructed memory

Painting as a reconstruct thing

Words are funny things

A loner in the art world

Imagery in the work

Flatness or compression

That's your problem

Just start

A routine

A TS Eliot quotation

Seeing like a child

Closing

Credits