Ghost Child

A child is born into a particular place and is shaped by that place. This child is in each of us, it could be any of us. It is naked and vulnerable. It explores and discovers and learns. It grows old but it is still the same child. You have to be small to see these things. We are small.

Baby in the tussocks               61 X 76 cm          oil on hardboard

We come from the stony rises               61 X 46 cm          oil on hardboard

The beautiful corellas               51 X 69 cm          oil on plywood

Baby and the zigzag stream               92 X 61 cm          oil on hardboard

Asleep in the tussocks               61 X 76 cm          oil on hardboard

Wait for me, don’t leave me               31 X 45 cm          oil on hardboard

Where the rocks and thistles grow               46 X 61 cm          oil on hardboard

Sleeping on the side                61 X 76 cm          oil on hardboard

Follow the sheep path               41 X 61 cm          oil on plywood

Running through the tussocks               45 X 60 cm         oil on MDF

So far, so much               91 X 61 cm          oil on hardboard

In the pines               46 X 61 cm          oil on hardboard

In the rocks               61 X 45 cm          oil on hardboard

Go where the water goes           51 X 68 cm          oil on MDF

Leaping from rock to rock         61 X 45 cm          oil on hardboard

                                                                                       Child up a Tree – No Come Down          45 X 60 cm          oil on plywood

Spring-heeled Jack               65 X 66 cm          oil on board

If you would build, first dig              45 X 34 cm          oil on hardboard

Searching for the lost Pacific Star               61 X 45 cm          oil on hardboard

Asleep in the rocks               48 X 61 cm          oil on hardboard

Self-portrait 1985               61 x 46 cm          oil on hardboard

Enter this place, become this place: face in a sheep trough                46 X 34 cm          oil on hardboard

Became stone               40 X 61 cm          oil on plywood

Became wood               61 X 46 cm          oil on plywood

Became water               72 X 49 cm          oil on MDF

Became paper               61 X 48 cm          oil on hardboard