WATERCOLOURS : Scenes
The artist favours watercolour for flower and nature studies and has produced countless portrait studies in watercolour, including babies and children. She sometimes combines watercolour with mixed-media, pen, and pencil, using pure watercolour for landscape compositions and more finished portraits. The compositions for the artist’s major acrylic paintings are developed through preliminary watercolour sketches.
Her landscape compositions are influenced by the poetic approach of Chinese masters who capture the essence of a scene after immersing themselves in the environment. This all-encompassing perspective is in direct contrast to the limiting “snapshot” view painted at the scene. In some of her watercolour landscapes she paints on crumpled Japanese paper to create a shimmering textural effect.
WATERCOLOURS Theme: Scenes
84 Works to view
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84 Works to view Page 1 2
Scenes: Atmospheric landscapes composed in the studio: trees, rivers, rocks, cliffs. Plein air (early works) include bush, desert, sunsets and coastal scenes. City scenes include: streets, buildings, backyards, factories, and construction sites.
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Cliff and River Bank, Goulburn River National Park, 2004watercolour and pen
32 x 41 cm
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Cat in Snow, Backyard, Weesp, Netherlands, 1991watercolour and pen
41 x 31 cm
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Slate Roofs along Kent Street, Millers Point, 1986watercolour and pen
38 x 51 cm
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Gossip in Kent Street, Millers Point, 1986watercolour and pen
38 x 51 cm
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Ash Wednesday Bushfire, 1986watercolour and singed paper collage
98 x 71 cm
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Backyards in Kent Street, Millers Point: Mrs Mac Feeding Cats, Washing Blowing on the Line, 1985watercolour and pen
37 x 50 cm
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Backyards in Kent Street, Millers Point: Expectant Kerry, 1985watercolour and pen
37 x 50 cm
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Backyards in Kent Street, Millers Point: Washing Blowing on the Line, Greyhound Inset, 1985watercolour and pen
37 x 50 cm
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Telegraph Pole, Kent St, Miller's Point, Sydney, 1985watercolour, brown pen and spittle
59 x 42 cm
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Rank Kirby Furniture Factory, White's Creek, viewed from Annandale, 1985watercolour and pen
28 x 38 cm
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Innenhof, Kreutzberg, Berlin, 1980watercolour
30 x 40 cm
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Sketch: Metal Workers, WH Williams & Sons Factory, Silverwater, 1980watercolour and ballpoint on newsprint
42 x 30 cm
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Sketch: Stacking Steel Beams, WH Williams & Sons Factory, Silverwater, 1980watercolour and ballpoint on newsprint
42 x 30 cm
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Sketch: Bus Shelter, Parramatta Road (opposite Ross Street), Sydney University, with marbling doodle, 1978watercolour, pencil and crayon
18 x 25 cm
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Flooded Mongarlowe River: Submerged Trees, 1978watercolour
57 x 76 cm
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Flooded Mongarlowe River: Raging Torrent, 1978watercolour
38 x 40 cm
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Gnarled Pines, Jindabyne, 1978watercolour
38 x 56.5 cm
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Silver and Ochre Gum, Mongarlowe River, 1978watercolour
52.8 x 37.5 cm
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Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges, 1977watercolour on crumpled Japanese paper
46 x 59 cm
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Spencer's Crossing, Kosciuszko National Park, 1977watercolour on crumpled Japanese paper
31.5 x 68 cm
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Looking down View St, Annandale towards White Bay Power Station, 1977watercolour and pen
37 x 54 cm
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Mountain Lagoon Road, Bilpin - study for 'Turning and Turning', 1977watercolour and pen
37 x 54 cm
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Across the Gorge / Colo Heights: Sunlit Escarpment through Gums, 1977watercolour on crumbled paper
41 x 96 cm
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Cattai Ridge (watercolour), 1976watercolour on crumpled Japanese paper
61.5 x 71 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Cattai Ridge (watercolour, small), 1976watercolour on crumpled Japanese paper
16 x 34 cm
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Wollondilly River, 1976watercolour
40 x 50 cm
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Sketch: Lee-Ann and Wayne with Go-cart, 1976watercolour
21 x 29 cm
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Struggling Gums, Cattai Ridge, 1976watercolour
12 x 21 cm
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Crackenback River, 1976watercolour on crumpled Japanese paper
36 x 96 cm
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Rocky Incline, Old Northern Road, 1976watercolour and pen
56 x 38 cm
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Goalen Point from Murrah Gardens, 1976watercolour
54 x 75 cm
Commission. Private Collection.
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Shakeshaft's Waterfall, 1975watercolour
76 x 65 cm
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Wollangambe Wilderness, Blue Mountains, 1975watercolour
63 x 97 cm
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Bogan River in Flood, 1974watercolour
61.5 x 71 cm
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Mirror Image Banksias, 1973watercolour
24 cm dia.
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White Bay Power Station from Glebe Point, Timber Mill with Derrick Crane in Foreground, 1973watercolour and ballpoint
20 x 25 cm
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Sketch: Hippie on Pyrmont Bridge, Evening, 1973watercolour
30.5 x 22.5 cm
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Sketch: Indian Family in Glebe Point Road, 1972watercolour and ballpoint
20 x 33 cm
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Sketch: Corner Shop Annandale, Piper & View Sts - 'Billy Tea', 1972watercolour and ballpoint on airmail paper
20 x 25 cm
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Sketch: Corner Shop Annandale, Piper & View Sts - 'Groceries', 1972watercolour and ballpoint on airmail paper
20 x 25 cm
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Sketch: Corner Shop Annandale, Piper & View Sts - 'Shelley's Famous Drinks', 1972watercolour and ballpoint on airmail paper
20 x 25 cm
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The Edge of the Lake / Umber, 1972watercolour
35 x 46 cm (var)
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Cul-de-sac Composition Sketch, 1972watercolour
28 x 38 cm
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Clearing / Moonlight 1, 1971 circawatercolour
33 cm dia (est)
Private collection
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After Rain / Bush After Rain, 1971watercolour
37.5 x 45 cm
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Broken Branch, Second Creek, Ivymeade, Burnside, 1971watercolour
56 x 78 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Ridge, Lane Cove River National Park, 1971watercolour
20.5 x 25.5 cm
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Silver Rock and River Reflections, 1971watercolour
14 x 30 cm
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Tree Group, 1971watercolour
40 x 57 cm (est)
Private collection
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Five Trees, 1971watercolour
45 x 60 cm (est)
Private collection
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Summer along the Hawkesbury, 1970watercolour
35 x 54 cm
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Sunlight on Water / River Island, 1970watercolour
36 x 42 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Down and Out in Glebe, 1970watercolour
43 x 32 cm
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She-Oaks by the Upper Colo, 1970watercolour
35 x 48 cm (est)
Private collection
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Old Rocks, 1969 circawatercolour
35 x 51 cm (est)
Private collection
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Rock Study, 1969watercolour
51 x 77 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Boys Crabbing in Estuary, Gosford, 1969watercolour
55 x 68 cm
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Oberon Landscape, 1969watercolour on grey ingres paper
51 x 61 cm
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Moon / Moonlight 2, 1969watercolour
33 cm dia (est)
Private collection
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Forked Tree, Ku-ring-gai, 1967watercolour
58 x 79 cm
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Twisted Pine Branch, 1967watercolour
28.5 x 38 cm
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View of the Lane Cove River, 1967watercolour
50 x 72 cm
Private collection
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Blue Mountains Rockface / Ridge, 1964watercolour
33 x 58 cm
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Sleaford Bay Headland, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 1962watercolour
39 x 58 cm
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Sleaford Bay, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 1961watercolour
39 x 58 cm
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Woolloomooloo from The Domain, 1961watercolour
30 x 40 cm
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Hilltop Houses, Outskirts of Broken Hill, 1961watercolour
39 x 56 cm
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Washing Day, Broken Hill, 1961watercolour
28 x 38 cm
Private collection
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Three Trees, 1961crayon and watercolour
39 x 56 cm
Private collection
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Ships in the Harbour, 1961watercolour
23.5 x 38.5 cm
Private collection
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Flowering Saltbush, Euriowie Creek, 1961watercolour
38.5 x 55.5 cm
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Blue Mountains Ridge / Rugged Landscape, 1961watercolour
11 x 39 cm
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Louth Bay, SA, 1960 circawatercolour
56 x 51 cm
Private collection
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Spring, Adelaide Foothills, 1959watercolour
31 x 43 cm
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Boys Cockling, Port Lincoln, 1959watercolour
29 x 52 cm