Walkthrough

Introduction

The beginning

The Second World War

Balsam wood

Picnics and cricket

Family history in art

Grandmother in her youth

Starting with art

Lust for Life

Caring about paint

The first still lifef

You can't do anything else

Self taught

Julian Ashton School

Not life class

Did not graduate

Persistence

East Sydney Technical College

Failed in composition

Young students at East Sydney Tech

Do a bit of art

Serious about art

Living with father

Meeting Brett Whiteley

Brett Whitely and Michael Johnson

The first show

Barry Stern

Getting the show with Barry Stern

Noela Yuill

Meeting MIchael Johnson

What type of work

What triggered interest in abstraction

Meeting Daniel Thomas

Introduction to Tom Gleghorn

Rapt in art magazines

Pop art, op art or cop art

How much abstraction in Sydney

The first solo show

Hard edge paintings

They weren't expressive

The trip to Europe

Painting around North Sydney

The first sale

Meeting a pater familias

Lets go to Europe

Brett Whiteley and Michael Johnson in London

The place in London

Renting a room

Serious painters

Whitely as a motivating force

Brett Whitely and abstraction

Going to Christie's house

The Ladbroke Grove gang

The arrival of Tony McGillick

Meeting Roger Hilton

How important was London

Different favourites

Back to Australia via the United States

Get him out or he'll die

Going to New York

The digs in New York

Back in Australia

Meeting Michael Alan Shore

Central Street Studio

Abstract but also figurative work

Distinctive paintings

Expressive abstraction

Abstract expressionism abandoned

Chandler Coventry at Central Street Studio

Hong Kong

Several years in Hong Kong

The effect of Hong Kong

Showing with Chandler Coventry

Hong Kong to Europe

Fossicking around France and Italy

Going back to traditional landscape

Working at Whale Beach

The work explodes

The current house and studio

Figurative as well as abstraction

Reinvestigating what to do

Suddenly figurative stuff

Kicking over the sand castles

Too habitual

Toughening up

The current work

Gestural painting

Another explosion

Can't afford nudes

A committed abstractionist

Corot and Turner

The rationale for abstraction

Involved in Pollock

Discovering Pollock

The influence of Matisse

Not a great fan

A social mixer

Thank you

Credits