History behind the Wollongong show
Proof reader's assistant, start of art career
Drawing for Bulletin's sister magazine
New Guinea, Bougainville and volcanos
Everything is just so much bigger
Turned on by jungle and rain forest
Focussing on painting the landscape
The pressure to find your direction
The Mount Hagen Dance Festival on TV
Borrowing photos from David Attenborough
Too many people for a walk around
Starting with realistic paintings
A glow on the top of the volcano
The huge orange ball, the cadmium red river
Figures immersed in the landscape
Preference for primitive paintings
Decreasing enthusiam for European landscape painting
Sympathy with other cultures' attitudes
Painting from inside the landscape
The figure as part of the landscape
The mad hitchhike around Australia
Alice Springs and the red Centre
Surviving eight years in London
The beginnings of abstract expressionism
Back in Sydney, wish I was back in London
Feeling at home, Jamberoo and rain forest
Joining the Tin Sheds at Sydney University
Becoming Director of the Tin Sheds
The early seventies and conceptual art
Enter into the Archibald Prize
The flying figure, Arthur Boyd and the Shoalhaven
Staying at the Boyd studio on the Shoalhaven
Guy and a black bird reverse roles
Listening to what your old man says
The flying figure and risk taking
The flying figure and cross cultural relations
Drawings of a little man in a canoe
The tree fern lady, the fertility goddess
Deep personal emotions surface
Use canvas to make a statement of its own