Lovely to be invited to exhibit a collection of paintings at the Travel Lodge in Rabaul. We will use the opportunity to do shopping for the Tradestore and to show Arron the Big Smoke.
Because most of the audience will be people on holidays or expatriates visiting, I have decided to send a selection rather than keep to one theme. I have taken remembered images from our travels along the coast line and our visits to various cocoa and copra plantations along the Bougainville coast line, from Buka to Kieta.
Again, I have taken the liberty of including familiar images: our pet pig Grunt and our dogs, along with people we know, or have known. And I have aimed to relay a feeling of place rather than a true photographic image.
I also feel a need to state that I would not manage to produce these works if I did not have people in our employ that helped clean the house, cook, maintain the garden and help look after our son, Arron. I am deeply grateful for their help which allows me to complete the art.
Once again I have chose to keep to a square-ish, smallish format.
Oil on canvas Most are approx 24 inches x 24 inches.
