Introduction

Beginning to study art

Becoming a proofreader

Cartoonists in the Bulletin

Wanting to be a cartoonist

J.S. Watkins

Teach this kid to draw

Volunteering for the army

Used to draw

He changed my life

Soldiers as significant artists

Oliffe Richmond

Drawing with Oliffe in Lae

Served on Bougainville

Studying at the National Art School

A goup of likeminded people

Leaving the National Art School

Worked to go to England

Marriage, Naples and London

Going to Europe, immensely important

No reproductions of art works at NAS

How the 50's shaped Guy's art

Galleries beginning to show again

The St. Ives people

Peter Lanyon

Ben Nicholson

Roger Hilton

The impressionists

Coming back to Australia

Many reasons

Wanted kids to grow up in Australia

Not happy to return

Showing work to Gallery A

Overcooked

Simply overworked

Watercolour to cure overcooking

The Sydney University Art Workshop

Radicalisation

Bert Flugelman

What an art school might be

The Tin Sheds

The newly formed Sydney College of the Arts

Be taught if you wanted to be taught

Submission for new art school

A very open educational system

It didn't work like that

The Archibald Prize

Effect on career

Made no difference

The New York residency

Staying another three months

Anne Lewis

A further three months

The joy of New York

A great experience

The Paris residency

Spent time mainly in the galleries

The studio in Leighhardt

Separation of domestic life and art practice

A typical day's work

Ten to eight

Highly abstracted figures

One moment on Bougainville

Paying with talcum powder

Too sissy to use

White talcum marks

Decorating the body

What to paint?

Paint memories

The Mount Hagen festival

The first documentary

Refresh memories

A young Australian painter in London

The David Attenborough photos

The London show

Before the show

The Attenborough interview

My painting on David's wall

Credit to Andrew Denton

Jamberoo and wilderness

Figures in the landscape

A literary idea

People as part of the landscape

Figures immersed in the landscape

Play around with landscape

Not painting the landscape

How would life have been different

Maybe a wrong decision

Liked to have stayed in London

No regrets

What would you have done different

Ask for courage

No, ask for confidence

A war artist?

Self-confidence

Thank you

Credits