2012 Art and Poetry

Artist and Poets

  1. Emily Peck / Max Merckenschlager & Brigita Ferencak
  2. Cathy White / Carol Millner & Kevin Gillam
  3. Karen Forbes-Smith / Scott-Patrick Mitchell & Nathan Hondros
  4. Sharleen Jespersen / Peter Jeffrey & Jan Napier
  5. Peter Dixon / Val Neubecker & Amanda Joy
  6. Stephen Franklin / Liz Nicholls & Julienne Juschke
  7. Greg Barr / Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Ron Okely
  8. Chris White / Colleen O’Grady & Tanya Jaw
  9. Gillian Deague / Christopher Konrad & Virginia O’Keeffe
  10. Michael Sinclair / Veronica Lake & Allan Padgett
  11. Richard Kousins / Glen Phillips & Laurel Lamperd
  12. Delores Purdie / Deanne Leber & Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
  13. Josh Harper / Keren Gila Raiter & Sarah Leighton
  14. Lisa Joyce / Peter Rondel & Meryl Manoy
  15. Holly Gray / J.R. McRae & Zan Ross
  16. Jacqui Anderson / Christina Gammon & Shey Marque
  17. Lorraine Stevens / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Maureen Sexton
  18. Kristen Cameron / Michael Hilston & Max Merckenschlager
  19. Christina Curly / Tineke Van Der Eecken & Carol Millner
  20. Nathan Garrod / Scott-Patrick Mitchell & Rose van Son
  21. Karen Evans / Jan Napier & Cuttlewoman
  22. Liliana Cheldi / Natasha Adams & Val Neubecker
  23. Richard Smither / Alistair Bain & Liz Nicholls
  24. Richard Smither / Graeme Butler & Ron Okely
  25. Lindsay Stubbs / Coral Carter & Colleen O’Grady
  26. Jane Gribben / Liana Joy Christensen & Virginia O’Keeffe
  27. Pauline Birrell / Sally Clarke & Allan Padgett
  28. Wayne Knight / Glen Phillips & Sue Clennell
  29. Peter Iland / Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne & Jake Dennis
  30. Julie Marsh / Keren Gila Raiter & Gary Colombo De Piazzi
  31. Diana Coote / Peter Rondel & Julie Fearns-Pheasant
  32. Jenny Travers / Zan Ross & Brigita Ferencak
  33. Cheryl Ham / Shey Marque & Kevin Gillam
  34. Barry Tonkin / Nathan Hondros & Maureen Sexton
  35. Terry Ashton / Peter Jeffrey & Michael Hilston
  36. Robbie Wilshire / Amanda Joy & Tineke Van Der Eecken
  37. John Tillbrook / Julienne Juschke & Rose van Son
  38. Andrew Finlay / Peter Rondel & Cuttlewoman
  39. Sharon Siciliano / Natasha Adams & Tanya Jaw
  40. Gavin Downing / Christopher Konrad & Alistair Bain
  41. Ian Mc Donald / Graeme Butler & Veronica Lake
  42. Angela Mariotti / Laurel Lamperd & Coral Carter
  43. Rebecca Berkhout / Liana Joy Christensen & Deanne Leber
  44. Janelle Mc Mahon / Sally Clarke & Sarah Leighton
  45. Elinor Doddrell / Sue Clennell & Meryl Manoy
  46. Ken Reedy / J.R. McRae & Jake Dennis
  47. Michael Tholet / Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Christina Gammon
  48. Lisa Coles / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Julie Fearns-Pheasant
  49. Keith Indich / Max Merckenschlager & Brigita Ferencak
  50. Rosina Hodge / Carol Millner & Kevin Gillam
  51. Donna Barnsley / Scott-Patrick Mitchell & Nathan Hondros
  52. Jeremey Gowing / Peter Jeffrey & Jan Napier
  53. Jenny Hyde / Val Neubecker & Amanda Joy
  54. Jodie Bateman / Liz Nicholls & Julienne Juschke
  55. Michelle Storer / Ron Okely & Val Neubecker
  56. Liliana Cheldi / Colleen O’Grady & Tanya Jaw
  57. Doug Fancourt / Virginia O’Keeffe & Christopher Konrad
  58. Wayne Cooper / Veronica Lake & Allan Padgett
  59. Nathan Garrod / Glen Phillips & Laurel Lamperd
  60. Wayne Cooper / Deanne Leber & Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
  61. Michelle Storer / Sarah Leighton & Keren Gila Raiter
  62. Melissa Costanzo / Peter Rondel & Meryl Manoy
  63. Kevin Devine / J.R. McRae & Zan Ross
  64. Gavin Mc Namara / Christina Gammon & Shey Marque
  65. Gynetta Panaia / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Maureen Sexton
  66. Jessica Cantatore / Max Merckenschlager & Michael Hilston
  67. Mathew Froud / Tineke Van Der Eecken & Carol Millner
  68. Denis Tomlinson / Jan Napier & Rose van Son
  69. Eleana Bredemeyer / Cuttlewoman & Liz Nicholls
  70. Guy Rossi / Natasha Adams & Zan Ross
  71. Warren Brass / Alistair Bain & Maureen Sexton
  72. Lisa Bernic / Rose van Son & Graeme Butler
  73. Katie Bassett / Coral Carter & Natasha Adams
  74. Vivienne Sharp / Liana Joy Christensen & Coral Carter
  75. Peter Layton / Sally Clarke & Jayden Tan
  76. Richard Smither / Liana Joy Christensen & Sue Clennell
  77. <strong> Jane Gribben / Jake Dennis & Sue Clennell
  78. Katrina Barber / Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Christopher Konrad
  79. Candice Raphael / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Julie Fearns-Pheasant

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  1. Artwork by Emily Peck

 1. Emily Peck

54 x 38 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Heart Bypass Operation

The very core of our existence.
Yet how tiny and vulnerable it seems,
as surgeon’s knife exposes
the tangled, convoluted web of life
for ultimate reconstruction.

Max Merckenschlager

 

A scent of happy children
lingers in the Air
ice cream and lemonade
cheer us up and remind us of hot summer days
lying carefree in the sun
what a privilege
no sorrows weighing us down
transformed into summersaults
We can feel
LIFE
in all its Splendour

THE WANDERING GYPSY
(Brigita Ferencak)

 

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  1. Artwork by Cathy White

 2. Cathy White

44 x 32 Acrylic on Canvas

 

twenty-seven
signs in a script
i never knew…
yet how could anyone
convey more accurately
blue yellow & red –

the song of autumn’s
weather vane?

Carol Millner

 

 

these lines

a spray of coloured lines
searching for song,
seeking a story –
blue stalking suede shoes, solace,
red’s feelers out for Mao or a corvette,
yellow in wait for submarine
or brick road –
all these lines,
searching

Kevin Gillam

 

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  1. Artwork by Karen Forbes-Smith

3. Karen Forbes-Smith

40 x 31 Acrylic on Canvas

 

crafting sky chartery

life is appliqué. gather
fragment scraps & a
smear of paint. density
becomes metaphor’s el
-oquence. the night sky
is an outline, scraper
high, cloud shapen eye
. it looks like a kitten
heel, purring ballet, tulle
as tutu’s zeal: stars are hip
.

            Scott-Patrick Mitchell

 

 

it’s as though she has pinned
up the ragged hat and coat
of my life in all its chromatic
dysfunction       a centrifuge
of cloth that suspends its particles
out of reach but in full sight

before running down the canvas
in inks that would hate each other
but for their simplicity

which makes all this perfect

Nathan Hondros

 

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  1. Artwork by Sharleen Jespersen

4. Sharleen Jespersen

30 x 23 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Bang Bang And Bunched Leaves On Paper.

Sharleen, have you ever pressed your palms
Hard into your eyes and waited and watched,
While stars formed and long streaks of light,
And sometimes, with luck, colours spread
Diffusing each into each?
Here too, your bang bang on paper and soft
Ever spreading leaves have moved colours
Into the grain of paper, marking brown earth,
Green grass, water, into another world newly
Seen and yet to be seen.

            Peter Jeffrey OAM


Backed by wattle’s fortissimo
so only audible to bees
carillions of blue fuchsias
chink and dingle.
Silence Monet’s lilacs

Jan Napier

 

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  1. Artwork by Peter Dixon

5. Peter Dixon

40 x 28 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

Can you feel it?

colours pulsate
brushstrokes throb
and a steady rhythm
pumps life into the canvas

yes – it’s the heartbeat of the artist.

Val Neubecker

 

Outstretched

Stretch your arms wide, I’ll move
toward what is revealed
between them
inside

Paint a heart red and arterial blue
and all the colours of the world
will jostle to be closer to you

            Amanda Joy

 

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  1. Artwork by Stephen Franklin

6. Stephen Franklin

25 x 34 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

violin strings reverberate
sound waves dance
through spring blossoms
blend with birdsong
melt into soft sunshine

Liz Nicholls

 

WOOSH… SWOOSH… SWISH …

A dance of dips
and terrific turns

A kiss
in the sky

The engine quill using ink of smoke
A sweeping message ablaze

OOOOO… AHHHH …

The onlookers gaze

Julienne Juschke

 

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  1. Artwork by Greg Barr

7. Greg Barr

26 x 36 Acrylic on Canvas

 

The heart of country is red.
Fire caught in every grain
every burnt, reaching plain.

Song lines form in the tread of man
branding their blue white and gold
tones on the air, the bush, the land.

Sung stories built on lore and survival
bridge the divide, bonding kin
to country with fire in the heart.

Gary Colombo De Piazzi

 

Pilbara Red

Ancient rocky outcrops
weathered by wind and rain
give way to mile
upon mile
of rich red earth
staining your heart forever

            Ron Okely

 

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  1. Artwork by Chris White

8. Chris White

32 x 41 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Chris’ Dream

This poem for a painting with its bright hues;
The artwork completed to musical muse.
Brilliant red splashes meet the eye,
Crossing over onto a darker dye.
The hard work of Chris, like poppies red,
Coming from ideas within his head
And transferred to canvas with his clever feet,
An artist of his genre is hard to beat.

            Colleen O’Grady

 

 

Energetic and passionate
like an elegant bird
flame or fire
Pounding in rhythm
Organic and dynamic
Andalusian gypsy

            Tanya Jaw

 

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  1. Artwork by Gillian Deague

9. Gillian Deague

21 x 15 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

If heaven or the sky or any of the above
could be held in mind’s winsome cloud
then let these blues, cotton pink and fold, paper billow
and thread speak to the beauty of flow
The cusp of all that is human are rested here on this page
the tarp of Gillian Deague’s gift, her future and frivolity

I fall into that scattering of cosmos   great infinitude
and rest there like an unmade angel
only while there         in Gillian Deague’s art
and fall back out again to bring this tale to earth

Christopher Konrad

 

A collage of time

Which ribbon shall we wear today,
grosgrain or satin or trim?
Perhaps my child prefers polka dots
Or gingham or rickrack so thin.
Bows bouncing and bobbing on braids
Can be tied in printed or plain or
Maybe mum went all out and bought baby
Green cotton embroidered with trains.
Whatever the choice now those ribbons,
Are my memories, captured on card.

Virginia O’Keeffe

 

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  1. Artwork by Michael Sinclair

10. Michael Sinclair

20 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Dancing Man

At the core of things is the dancing man.
He leaps, he turns, a thing of grace.
Like light flickering over the surface,
movement released in a green torrent.
He dances to his own rhythm.
A fandango of passionate red
flairs and fades, caught by the heart,
inviting others to follow
and dance with him to freedom.

Veronica Lake

 

Celebration

I paint a startling panorama
of viridian and tangerine.

My life unfolds in a rush
of vibrant strokes,
meandering thoughts –

and a cassowary tumbling
through saturating raining forest.

            Allan Padgett

 

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  1. Artwork by Richard Kousins

11. Richard Kousins

20 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Abstract Buddha

Incense sticks send curlicues
of smoke from their ranked stall
at the temple entrance. Shoes
are stacked haphazardly on steps
and a few monks robed in maroon
move in the dark inner depths.

I advance through hanging green
tendrils to observe this red buddha
with its third eye unseen. Hear
ching-ching of little temple bells.

Glen Phillips

 

Beginnings

Strange white things

Crawling over red sands
From the Permian
Now discovered skeleton-like in stone
And art forms
Of imaginative minds.

Laurel Lamperd

 

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  1. Artwork by Delores Purdie

12. Delores Purdie

42 x 31 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

Darling
In my eyes we are
Every colour
Gathered together

Calendars wilt
But your eyes bloom brighter
And we fit because
We are made of each other

            Deanne Leber


The Dance

I lay down brush and paper,
release wild butterflies
over earth’s green plane
colour it up, muck up
the order of things
nature’s shin dig.

            Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne

 

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  1. Artwork by Josh Harper

13. Josh Harper

40 x 28 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

Ssssounds. silence. reminiscences.
sitting sitting. while the world turns round.
items scattered like a wind through autumn leaves
the tent was large, the sky above — larger still.
the smile on her face — sizeless.

Keren Gila Raiter

 

“Secret trails”

Explore
sands of ochre
See
sleepy creatures
Spring
sunshine streams
Be
this vibrant Life.

            Sarah Leighton

 

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  1. Artwork by Lisa Joyce

14. Lisa Joyce

40 x 39 Acrylic on Canvas

 

The miniscule
The unseen
A world of wonder
Beneath the microscope
Coloured gems
Each as unique
As snowflakes


Peter Rondel

 

Tropicana

Brightly coloured tropical fish
in their natural habitat
darting in and out the corals
brilliant colours, bizarre shapes,
such an exotic display
of Nature’s vast variety.

Meryl Manoy

 

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  1. Artwork by Holly Gray

15. Holly Gray

26 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Lone Flower.

A lone flower,
Alone in wild regions
Where moss and lichen,
Toadstool, bracken,
Old man’s beard and
Mistletoe
Unhindered grow…
Lone flower that blossoms best
In the heart’s deep wilderness.
I see, I know.

            J.R. McRae

 

 

Touch is like wind,
but texture is
stroking a bird, or
a dog, or a horse –
heavy in movement
and colour; or if a
storm pushes through,
all quick-silver blue,
fire-red and the green
of earth and spring.

Zan Ross

 

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  1. “Nature” by Jacqui Anderson

16. Jacqui Anderson

45 x 20 Ceramic Dish

 

Cool, wet earth
moves
between fingers
moulding to lines.
Heart, fate, life
within my hands,
all of me
becoming
this ornament
where keys are thrown.

Christina Gammon


Fragments of life, pass by, pause for a fraction of time,
become imprinted on the earth. Gouge it, scrape it, stain it,
distort its shape but we can never destroy it for the earth is
a recycled canvas.

with every foot print
on fresh mud, I am back there
repainting the past

            Hai Bun by Shey Marque

 

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  1. Artwork by Lorraine Stevens

17. Lorraine Stevens

3 Ceramic Pieces

 

Wind chime leaves,
captured treasures from the forest
pressed lovingly onto clay,
stained with juices of earth,
imagined depths of time,
fired for endurance.
These leaves of her wanderings
will turn on a breeze,
chime their joy,
release a glint of knowing.

            Jacqui Merckenschlager

 

Earth Chimes

Green leaves
blow with the breeze
gold flowers
bright in the sun
brown/grey gum nuts
drop to the earth;
hapes, tracks and swirls
glazed in colours
of the bush.

            Maureen Sexton

 

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  1. Artwork by Kristen Cameron

18. Kristen Cameron

Ceramic Wind Chime

 

Listen to it “PLAY”

Listening to the music,
I hear it as it plays
Through the summer days
It’s my eucalyptus wind chime made from clay.
I hope you like the music
It will play.

Michael Hilston


Murrundi Willows

Slip beneath Murrundi’s streaming tears,
feel them kiss and cool your burning cheek.
Share your game of summer hide and seek,
immigrants who’ve settled through the years.

Max Merckenschlager
‘Murrundi’ is the aboriginal name for River Murray

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  1. Artwork by Christina Curly

19. Christina Curly

30 x 23 Acrylic on Canvas

 

There’s a rose in your hair
I smell the ocean
and petals of dawn
A summer day

I see your face
A diamond glint
in the trees around you
A memory away

There’s a rose in your hair
Your diamond face
A memory away

            Tineke Van Der Eecken

 

“A”


Here is an “A”, just one.
Here is a desert just begun.
Here is a forest. Here is a sun.
Here is a golden child.

Here is a lizard with a lizard’s smile –
she stops to bask in the sun awhile
then says to the child atop the “A”
just what a lizard is going to say

in a world with no language except for an “A”.

Carol Millner

 

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  1. Artwork by Nathan Garrod

20. Nathan Garrod

20 x 20 Paper Art

 

weaver’s world

after tearing strips off
yourself, weave you back
together anew. speckle
like spectators gesticu
-late. give boundaries to
the rebuild: we shine best
within the world we con
-fine, yes. boxing-in
makes it easier to move
humans, so start moving
.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell


Indian Summer

a garden chair, its plaited seat so lightly done
to sit and view those woven baskets hung
just so, to take the sun to heart

you planted carrot seeds and lettuce hearts
for me to pick-
leaves peppered in morning sun

            Rose van Son

 

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  1. Artwork by Karen Evans

21. Karen Evans

25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Sticky clay shaped and fired
painted in love’s shade.
Seedlings secretly picked out,
potted   watered   watched over.
Only the finest blooms selected.
Look a vase of birthday Lilliums
for the world’s best mum.

Jan Napier


Me, Chagall, Keats

The table slipped and water slapped.
The flowers flew from their vase
into your lap—
Well, I never minded, no, not at all, not at all,
What was only a slightly strange thing to befall.
We gathered them up again, poked them all in again.
I dressed them down and painted them up again.
I thought about how, it was just like that Grecian urn
To loose grasp of its contents.
So I looked for a jar.

Cuttlewoman

 

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  1. Artwork by Liliana Cheldi

22. Liliana Cheldi

25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Diane and Brian
Phoenicopterus plastikos

pink Flamingos camp on
Don Featherstone’s lawn

coloured by carotene in
the plastic prawns they eat

sent flying when a soap box
racer careered out of control

Diane and Brian
kitsch cultural icons

Natasha Adams


Rendezvous

He’s on his way

head thrown back
motorbike roaring
his indigo leathers
blurring the leafy overhangs.
He smiles
as a riotous sunset
blushes the clouds
mirrors the lake
for he knows she’ll be waiting.

Val Neubecker

 

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  1. Artwork by Richard Smither

23. Richard Smither

30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas

 

The Skeins

were here
i taste their passing
and the dreams
they imagined on the ochre
green veins
surrounding blood
as if to heal
transform

            Alistair Bain

 

rain-filled days are greening the land
emus kangaroos raucous cockatoos –
delicate dragonflies with sunset wings
gather together to feast
in this brief time of plenty

Liz Nicholls

 

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  1. Artwork by Richard Smither

24. Richard Smither

25 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas

 

the sky fell in
and everything that wasn’t black
was blue
except the moon and stars
which glittered yellow surprise
not knowing the usual
a UFO reported Earth
a very strange place
where everything was either black or blue
and floated
in the sky

Graeme Butler


Trains and buses

The shapes of trains and buses
differ from town to town
but all have the same task daily
to carry the workers home.

Ron Okely

 

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  1. Artwork by Lindsay Stubbs

25. Lindsay Stubbs

30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas

 

At Bethanie
garden saints gather
with the congregation of flowers
wear petals as halos
lift honeyed voices to sing
all praise to the pollinators
hallelujah to rain clouds
glory be to the one earth
bloom without end

            Coral Carter

 

Lindsay’s View

Some days when Lindsay visiting farms
And viewing the country with all its charms,
Sees the winter greens, his favourite colour
And the orange paddocks of a dry summer.
Thus his painting represents his precious green
And orange of flowers of dry paddocks seen.
Lindsay’s work has a marvellous flair,
Beautiful flowers dancing in the air,
Reminding one of dancing daffodils
Floating o’er the valleys, fields and hills.

            Colleen O’Grady

 

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  1. Artwork by Jane Gribben

26. Jane Gribben

30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas

 

SETI Petals

Born on a blackboard
these upright flowers got bored
and left the classroom behind

Upright, invincible, they sail
through deepest space
self-styled ambassadors
for the human race


Liana Joy Christensen

 

 

Enamel flowers

When magpies sang in the moonlight
They conjured flowers out of the ground
Which gyred and glowed in the moonlight
To the beautiful magpies’ sound.
See them blossom out in the sunlight
On days when the wind sweeps the sky
Those painted petals from moonlight
Bright gifts from the carolling magpies.

Virginia O’Keeffe

 

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  1. Artwork by Pauline Birrell

27. Pauline Birrell

12 x 17 Acrylic on Canvas

 

see how the paint blends,
mixes one shade with another
smears across my larger canvas,
colours mingling

tossed in the wind
a storm blowing seawards
whipping up waves
flotsam   jetsam   random   chaotic

bigger picture than I usually do
but such fun—all over my hands

Sally Clarke


Creation

A cacophony of vibrant saturated
colours explodes inside

a blue universe
of creation. The world
has just begun –

and I am running hard
and deep inside it.

Allan Padgett

 

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  1. Artwork by Wayne Knight

28. Wayne Knight

17 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Big Top In Town

The circus came to town
in red and yellow. Big top
rose near the saleyards
and wagons, wooden wheeled,
were drawn from circus train
steaming still in the station yard.

Ringside we eyeballed clowns,
acrobats, stern-faced lion tamers,
daring horse riders, who left us
living in a blur of yellow and red.

Glen Phillips

 

I paint Slim Dusty riding into the sunset
like Smoky Dawson, Roy Rogers,
and all other cowboy heroes.
The black of Slim’s hat merges
with crimson and gold because
the big man is up in the sky now,
but his music still reaches us.

Sue Clennell

 

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  1. Artwork by Peter Iland

29. Peter Iland

17 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas

 

The stories they could tell

Electric creatures
who live in the deep below,
witnessed the earth begin

do they fathom their own brillianc

booming within?

            Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne

 

Entremet: Between Servings Entertainment

Sprung by the chef’s courtly clown
paid sixpence for a song, the emerald crowned
diner donned in bloodied gilded armour
instead of glistening gravy finds:
a blackbird’s yellow beak—
Released like steam
the firework bursts—
like an exploding cannonball
into a bundle of black feathers
from the Italian 16th century pie.

Jake Dennis

 

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  1. Artwork by Julie Marsh

30. Julie Marsh

17 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Faeries in dark woods
whooshing winds, sifting sands.
a woman sits in a café eating lunch
dominoes topple and the radio blares
faeries dance from tree to tree
red to white to brown
a dance of daily moments
crayons and paints.

            Keren Gila Raiter


Catch a Fairy

There is a flicker
among the leaves.
A sprite too quick
a flash of red
a spur of yellow.
Could it be fairies
dancing the wind
and whispering leaves
in the brush and hush
morning sounds?

            Gary Colombo De Piazzi

 

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  1. Artwork by Diana Coote

31. Diana Coote

12 x 17 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Sounds of the mountain
as a spring thaw cascades
from its lofty birthplace.
The beginning of a long journey
to the waiting ocean
in a timeless display
of natures finest heritage.

Peter Rondel

 

Rocks breaking, almost wailing within…
…against the storm sea shapes…
…like an internal battle of elemental strong tears.
Scarred rivulets of salt bearing down
On broken crevices…
…natures’ revenge.

Julie Fearns-Pheasant

 

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  1. Artwork by Jenny Travers

32. Jenny Travers

30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

This bouquet of smiles
and laughter will spin
out into your eyes
and hands. Come
closer – it’s a door-
way into my heart
where loved ones
are welcome, and I
am dancing to the
music of their stories.

Zan Ross

 

My Angels are waiting in the meadows
their silver wings,hidden by their flowers´ petals
and OH, do you hear their precious laughter?
Like bluebells who wave in the Hereafter
A gentle breeze that is filled with Grace
and a place of Refuge
so come what may…

THE WANDERING GYPS
(Brigita Ferencak)

 

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  1. Artwork by Cheryl Ham

33. Cheryl Ham

30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Leap into the nucleus of your last dream
unravel helices of rose and gold
send their ribbons skyward
shout down those clouds from your rainbow
and dance upon them
for they will settle
like yesterday’s whisperings
fragile and soft underfoot

Shey Marque

 

canvas of being

call it more an undoing,
a release of mood states,

scrawled angst, brushed meanderings
of regret, all in the shy

hues of rainbow – indigo,
violet – the lurid unrhymes

of orange and purple,
daubs and curls and swirlings,

a canvas of being

Kevin Gillam

 

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  1. Artwork by Barry Tonkin

34. Barry Tonkin

40 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

here colour wheels across the canvas
left behind by tractor tread on farm land
and in its reds and blues is laughter
and longing and the playing of tricks

or cricket. because what he paints is a field
upon which things are played out
the livery of every day spent in the grip
of a good joke shared with these his friends

Nathan Hondros

 

Back on the Farm

This is a busy farm!
I can see wheels and tractors
tracks going back and forth
windmills and water
but the crop’s not green yet –
the only patch of green
is around the cricket pitch
and is that a dog I see
running after the ball?

            Maureen Sexton

 

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  1. Artwork by Terry Ashton

35. Terry Ashton

30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Seeing Things Everywhere

Terry, once in Bali,
On the slopes of a volcano,
My wife and children forged ahead
In the hurry scurry of seeing things,
But a hundred feet short
Of the crater’s rim I sat and could go no more.
Once they reached the crest,
Like you with your paint everywhere
They saw the heavens rain fire
And hurl stones and spurt molten gold.

            Peter Jeffrey OAM

 

Every day

The colours in the morning
Out my window everyday
Sitting in the sunshine
It’s where I want to play
Smiling, Laughter and Happiness
Are here to stay ………

            Michael Hilston

 

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  1. Artwork by Robbie Wilshire

36. Robbie Wilshire

30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Half a Colour Wheel

Arc me
a curve where
I might find a bird
ripple me a line
slide vermillion wide
wheel me through colour
a serenade in paint
speak to my eyes
I hear your art-
heart                  

            Amanda Joy

 

A coastline
bleached and scarred
Brisk summer breeze
with silent souls.
Wild poppy with purple petals,
frail (it seems),
sways on a bright green stem
We stop, breathe,
feel the pull.
Don’t pick it, or it’ll die.

Tineke Van Der Eecken

 

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  1. Artwork by John Tillbrook

37. John Tilbrook

30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

The Horse

Dawn breaks and sets ablaze the reflection of eyes
and droplets
of breath
appear

The horse snorts and puffs and breathes
Billowing clouds of warmth

Smoke signals in the cool morning air

Julienne Juschke


Storm Wind

It seems this is the sea
where fish and coral hide in streams
of spreading sun, the sky a crimson red
but if I look again I see planes that fly with birds
and if I turn my head I hear the wind
that drives your heart.

            Rose van Son

 

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  1. ‘Field of Dreams’ by Andrew Finlay

38. Andrew Finlay

30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

A yellow carpet

A field of buttercups.
The glory of a summer day
when weeds of many faces
compete for a place
to grow

Peter Rondel

 

Red meets the others

Not my colours.
The colours did not suit
the temper of my hair.
I squashed my eyes to blur them.
They pretend I am not there.
I quoted them as motley,
But still they do not care.
Just stressed and pressed nostrils against
my pigmentally-challenged hair.

Cuttlewoman

 

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  1. ‘Butterflies’ by Sharon Siciliano

39. Sharon Siciliano

30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Butterfly Days

Our days together are flying by
so my little butterfly, I will watch
you flutter by. To catch you
is to kill, these butterfly days.


Natasha Adams

 

Hot and cold dancing
Courting a mate
Wing colours and patterns
Warm male butterflies dancing
Cooler females swarming to choose

Tanya Jaw

 

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  1. ‘Falling Leaves’ by Gavin Downing

40. Gavin Downing

30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Guppies

Guppies swim and bits of me, there, in the spaces
left over after imagination has run its course
Other watery creatures and heralds of Darwin’s’ evolution
scope of the human scenario:
flighty, funny, full and empty – trilled and tumbling

All carmine, sea-green and saffron like Buddha’s pupils
The bits that are me, stay and wonder
The bits that are me, swim with my ancestors

For a little bit of time then, dear observer, stay and stare at creation

Christopher Konrad

 

In Profundis

here is an ocean sport
a morning when we woke as fish
and things sank down
for waiting blood-coral growing daisies
the molecules of humans
and human ingenuity parted and shattered
ululating to our sight
as the floor sand made
an ocean concoction of butternut milk
as welcome

Alistair Bain

 

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  1. ‘Going Home’ by Ian Mc Donald

41. Ian Mc Donald

30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Closing my eyes and looking towards the sun
I see the vivid red canvas of my passionate freedom
Which in painting I find near eludes me.
Ha!
But passionate freedom I have caught you
In and behind my ecstatic strokes
Of yellow, green and brown.

Graeme Butler

 

Vista

Vibrant, pulsating energy,
cannot be contained
Whirling in a fierce frenzy
Cannot be controlled
Red eye peering into
a strong red heart
Cannot be defined
Shifting, swirling dust,
Must be free, cannot be still

Veronica Lake

 

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  1. ‘For Mum’ by Angela Mariotti

42. Anglea Mariotti

40 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Imaginations

Out of a Terry Pratchett novel
I ride hard against the wind
Hidden within my pink bower
I kneed my steed onwards
Past bemused onlookers
Towards victory.

         Laurel Lamperd

 

galahs gather on a high wire
strung against clouds
some bunch rose pink breasts together
others hang by one clawed grey foot
swing
ripe fruit
then fall
before the hawk’s shadow
draws a curtain on the clown troupe

         Coral Carter

 

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  1. ‘Blue Vision’ by Rebecca Berkhout

43. Rebecca Berkhout 

30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Choices

Ribbons doppler
through this red shift pond
revealing green
fronds of reed that wrap
entrap

The Möbius dragonfly flees skyward
peels away to freedom
while the eel dives straight down
into deeper blue

Liana Joy Christensen


I rescued her Willow from dust
Those blue inky streams
Dancing around ceramic
Broke one when we moved

I wanted the leafy green cups
And plates with handles
Like water lilies floating
Arms behind head
Meditating in the cabinet, dust ninjas

         Deanne Leber

 

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  1. ‘Autumn Falls’ by Janelle Mc Mahon

44. Janelle Mac Mahon

25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

I explore the internet
find how to make different shapes
say something new

see what I can do
not just a paintbrush
for leaf shapes I try a cardboard tube

experiment
with a plastic cylinder
want abstract expressionism

to push imagination beyond ordinary

Sally Clarke


Dancing Leaves

From a rainbow sky
at red sunset
see petals, leaves
and golden seeds,
with snow-puff down
all swirl and dance
on a midnight lake,
a dream of joy.

         Sarah Leighton

 

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  1. Artwork by Elinor Doddrell

45. Elinor Doddrell

40 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Ho, I am a Flamenco dancer
afoot in a land of red capes,
dark eyebrows and oranges.
Watch wax candles gutter when I twirl by.
Guess who will be thrown my rose.

Sue Clennell

 

Flamenco Dance

A Flamenco dancer
I twist and turn
with skirt swirling
figures whirling
castanets clapping
high heels rapping.
Costumes enhance
the Flamenco Dance.

Meryl Manoy

 

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  1. Artwork by Ken Reedy

46. Ken Reedy

41 x 41 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Other Gardens.

Below sea ripple
Where kelp gardens wave,

Their mystery,
Come dive,
Come see
The beauty of these
Foetal worlds
The ocean’s child,
The living sea.

         J.R. McRae


Haiku indebted to Robert Frost and e. e. cummings

gold seeds in moist earth
catch light with first leaves: children
clasp bright falling stars

Jake Dennis

 

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  1. Artwork by Michael Tholet

47. Michael Tholet

21 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas

 

I Reach, You Reach

People as different
as primary colours
come and go.

I catch a glimpse of you
a glimpse of me
in colours banded strong.

Find the soft edges
between us.
You reach me
I reach you.

Gary Colombo De Piazzi

 

colours of this land
mine, theirs, ours
sparkling sapphire ocean meets
red rust, burnt dust, earth
sun shining golden amber over all
black, yellow, red
blue, red, white
the sun knows no difference
shows no difference
just shines

Christina Gammon

 

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  1. ‘Surfing in my Bean Bag’ by Lisa Coles

48. Lisa Coles

25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Bodies of the earth
spirits of the soul
intertwine
on a sunshine day.

Jacqui Merckenschlager

 

Bending back from a summer wind, sun dancing on our faces…
…heat on one side, cool whispering on the other.
Feeling tired, feet sunk in sand…
…together, walking.
End of a good day, breeze pushing us forward.

Julie Fearns-Pheasant

 

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  1. ‘My Nungah Flag’ by Keith Indich

49. Keith Indich

30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Getting The Balance

Fingers grip and slip in artful guile
on wobble-track of bowler’s smothered smile,
OR, planet Mars in realm of milky whey
a universe of human hearts away,
on NASA-funded burning-learning quest
while, back on Earth, we feed and clothe the rest.

Max Merckenschlager

 

Under darkened skies I meander
and yet I cannot loose myself
Being embraced by a cluster of stars
my light shines through
like velvet and silk
embedded in tender Love
I rise above the heavens

THE WANDERING GYPSY
(Brigita Ferencak)

 

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  1. ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ by Rosina Hodge

50. Rosina Hodge

30 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Rain!


Rain! I hear you drumming in the dark
my roof stretched tight my ears
attuned to a live mid-night performance
I feel you rising and rising –
gutters set to overflow in splendid crescendo
as you flash flood dash to ground water – fall
headlong into billabongs painted here like
rain’s footsteps drumming in the dark.

Carol Millner

 

while skin

on the wrinkled skin
of thinking,
blisters of flaming anger,
buds of fluorescent doubt,
while skin lies
dark as history,
thin as possibility,
oblivious

Kevin Gillam

 

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  1. Artwork by Donna Barnsley

51. Donna Barnsley

30 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas

 

charism

bloody burnt land
with a dab dab-hand
: consecrate sacred
space. with human
‘s, race. start running
. all things are better
sweeten. CHAR means
gift in ancient tongue
, so CHAR our world
your everything
.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell

 

I see the signs of hope also
and lay them down
in black and white

innocence is here at times
in the symbols she chooses
at the point where we intersect

she knows there are other ways of seeing
and in god she trusts
she knows well the direction of things

Nathan Hondros

 

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  1. Artwork by Jeremey Gowing

52. Jeremey Gowing

30 x 22 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Starship Surging Through Space

Jeremey, with your love of flight and robots,
I see you as the captain of a huge starship,
Gazing from your huge control deck
At pulsating infinite space and the everpresent
Stars that mark the bounds of all things,
Just as the dolphins you have left behind,
Surge through the surf of Earth
And along the endless ocean shores
Are leaping too, into the space of waves
And the sky above .

         Peter Jeffrey OAM

 

Sound the klaxons!
Call out the guard!
Aliens!   Invaders!
But wait   what’s this?
Award winner 2012
Sculpture By The Sea

Jan Napier

 

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  1. ‘Visiting Family in Geraldton’ by Jenny Hyde

53. Jenny Hyde _Visiting Family in Geraldton

90 x 30 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

Family

The genesis was only two
then generations spread and grew,
with added in-laws, features changed,
appearances were re-arranged,
but in each one, that first design
is handed down from line to line,
and buried deep, it’s on display –
the perfect strand of DNA.

Val Neubecker

 

Visiting Family in Geraldton

Joyous bright from the heart with a spark~

Familiar faces all gather around and I’ll dress you
in flowers and crowns and beautiful gowns
each outfit a bar of a beautiful song, sung so
we can all belong

         Amanda Joy

 

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  1. ‘Sea World’ by Jodie Bateman

54. Jodie Bateman_Seaworld

102 x 50 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

when thunder claps and waves crash
come with me to another place –
where seahorses glide majestically by
fabric fish sparkle, starfish smile
there are stories to hear
lost treasures to find –
safe beneath the storm

Liz Nicholls

 

Sea World

A world of wonder
a sight to see
a place to float … to swim
Just leap straight in

Underneath serene and still
Till … a GASP of glee
A classroom scene
A favourite wish
Schools of magnificent ocean fish

Julienne Juschke

 

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  1. Artwork by Michelle Storer

55. Michelle Storer

70 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Rain

Refreshing rain drops
Flowers lift their heads
Gardeners sigh with relief

Plants and people
share the same delights

         Ron Okely

 

playful bubbles
tease and tickle
the ocean’s swell
as a scattered wreath of
heavy-headed blooms
drifts
in remembrance of a friend

         Val Neubecker

 

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  1. Artwork by Liliana Cheldi

56. Liliana Cheldi

60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Liliana’s Delight

Sponges make flashes of green and yellow,
Leaving one feeling soft and mellow.
This painting reflects a gentle disposition,
Thus Liliana’s work is of tender transmission,
Smoothing with the sponge the softer parts,
Placing colours of love within our hearts.
For her painting is truly sublime,
One that will last the test of time.

         Colleen O’Grady

 

Grass tracking
along channels
of wheat

Weaving an
Aussie carpet
of green and gold

Tanya Jaw

 

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  1. Artwork by Doug Fancourt

57. Doug Francourt

60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Stars

Leaning on the Rialto Bridge in 1734 Canaletto saw
in his mind’s eye, waves of molten gold and cerulean
angels’ wings of heaven and painted them on canvas.
Now
Through a tube of mirrors 569 kilometres above the Bridge
Hubble’s telescope sails through the world of space,
capturing the erupting gold and turquoise of the
superb Swan Nebula on filtered wavelengths of light.
How amazing is man.

         Virginia O’Keeffe

 

Starry night revisited

Where Van Gough’s stars were great fiery swirls
Sweeping vortexes in European skies
Yours sing sweet simple gentle in the desert sky

Like a great Dreamtime serpent or Carpet snake
Your starry night places me in this land
Far away from other aspirations, other artists elsewhere

Your art is here, now and seats me quietly in this dirt as I reflect
As the cool quiet western desert night washes over me

         Christopher Konrad

 

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  1. Artwork by Wayne Cooper

58. Wayne Cooper

60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Triptych

One colour is not enough
Three sides to identity
Diversity the key
Green for life uplifting
Reaching to the sun
The core, the secret self
Lingers in shadows
Creativity shines blue
One colour is not enough

Veronica Lake

 

Revelation

Three worlds conjoin, the wildness
of nature confronts me.

As I wriggle free
from the bonds which tie
me to symmetry,

I sigh, I smile, I cry –

and living colours surround, caress
and pamper me.

Allan Padgett

 

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  1. Artwork by Nathan Garrod

59. Nathan Garrod

50 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Bright Trail Of Beauty

Like an opal ablaze with light
the colours shimmered on velvet black.
I thought of all the ways we come
following the bright trail of beauty,
following our songlines from pre-school
to the grey bobbing heads intoning
community tunes in a homely peace.

Glen Phillips

 

Where All Roads Lead

Distant tracks
Meandering through stunted mallee
And spinifex
Across stony deserts
Inland sand dunes
Searching for the Rainbow Serpent.

Laurel Lamperd

 

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  1. Artwork by Wayne Cooper

60. Wayne Cooper

45 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Fish dart between flakes
The kids count streaks in the water
Orange, grey and silver splash with laughter
So many moments
Turn between fingers
The control over lips kissing
Kids pucker up
We write them into poems
The delight of surfaces coming up for air

Deanne Leber

 

The Gardener

It seems only right
that trees, solid as houses
should begin as liberated seeds.

Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne

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  1. Artwork by Michelle Storer

61. Michelle Storer

60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Dragonflies

Dragonfly crush in busy meet
String tails slap and splash,
How finely tuned, this hasty greet
As pink and purple flash!

Slap hits hard – a bruise of gold
Marking the embrace
Weaving tracks both strong and bold
Life’s complicated lace!

         Sarah Leighton

 

Strings in motion
the connection between here and there
never finishing, never ending
flying
from source to destination, destination to source
each with a radiance of its own

         Keren Gila Raiter

 

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  1. ‘Butterfly Dance’ by Melissa Costanzo

62. Melissa Costanzo

45 x 55 Mixed Media on Canvas

 

The unsurpassed beauty
of the rarest orchids.
Beyond the reach of such as I
within the unseen protection
of some hidden forest.
Adornment of the Debutant
a treasured creation
to compliment her ball gown.

Peter Rondel


Butterfly Dance

A rosy day, butterflies dance
gently alighting on the flowers.
Butterflies, symbols of romance,
summer sunshine, happy hours;
such fragile delicate creatures
displaying stunning vibrant tones
of colour – their outstanding features –
gardens are their natural homes.

Meryl Manoy

 

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  1. Artwork by Kevin Devine

63. Kevin Divine

45 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas

 

The Youthful Gardener

A glimpse –
Among the hyacinth,
The thrill of daffodil,
The blush of rose,
The purple rush of iris,
All of those –
Glimpsed amidst their wonder,
A shy smile,
“Come sit, admire
A little while…”

         J.R. McRae

 

These colours are all
me: bright, Green
Lantern Coolness.
Check it out! I am
cruising with it – a
real doer, loving the
making, joining in.
Yeah! That’s me and
my friends over there,
laughing, living life big!

Zan Ross

 

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  1. ‘Inner Brightness’ by Gavin Mc Namara

64. Gavin Mc Nammara_Inner Brightness

55 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas

 

smile reflects in
kaleidoscopic eyes

hearts full
swell with warmth

coloured world
brightened day

Christina Gammon

 

From
your raw
emotions
primary shades
merge with parched earth, mapping territories

A Tetractys by Shey Marque

 

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  1. ‘Madam Butterfly’ by Gynetta Panaia

65. Gynetta Paniaia

63 x 183 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Girl,
haunting blue eyes reflected
in a squeezed heart pendant,
flanked by butterfly witch-wings,
embraced by flowing hair
medusa-like around her shoulders.
Is she prepared
to seduce the world?

Jacqui Merckenschlager

 

 

Bringing back Frida Kahlo

Was it Frida you saw that day,
and could you feel the pain in her eyes?
You have given her a new life
with your paintbrush
returned her to us
on the wings of a butterfly.
Her hair the colour of earth,
her beauty the colour of nature.

Maureen Sexton

 

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  1. Artwork by Jessica Cantatore

66. Jessica Cantatore

60 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Dugongs At Sunset

Seagrass sanctuary in Moreton Bay;
pups graze idly by her side
in this historic harbour of infamy.
Sunset weeps blood,
drenching their ocean bed.
A modern mermaid drifts at peace.

Max Merckenschlager

 

Every night

I love a golden sunset
Over the Aussie bush
Every night
I’m happy in colours
That make me smile
So it’s alright
With me

         Michael Hilston

 

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  1. Artwork by Mathew Froud

67. Mathew Froud

40 x 75 Acrylic on Canvas

 

At my table I serve you
plump tomatoes of empathy
bright peppers of joy
creamy eggplants of meaning
in a tangy pickle of truth
I sprinkle you with sugar
and tickle you with berries.
When you’re gone I sizzle you in my memory
and fry up a plan
to invite you again

Tineke Van Der Eecken

 

late roses dissolve
fallen petals turn
on the blue water

         Carol Millner

 

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  1. ‘Deep Sea’ by Denis Tomlinson

68. Denis Tomlinson

45 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Deep Sea  

(or the concise Snark)

‘Cross this greeny blue
sailed Bellman and crew.
Once landed they sought
for a creature most fraught,
but in triumph all sobbed,
of the baker were robbed.
To keep spirits up
His friends downed a sup,
and their narrative sped
to an editor’s head.

Jan Napier

 

 

Deep Sea

We have met before you & I
but in this Deep Sea there’s something new-
such striking lines, your colours bold
the voice you weave holds me in awe.
I breathe your beauty; am glad you swing
your brush again, such flight! So we can enjoy
the greater gift you give.

         Rose van Son

 

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  1. ‘Little Fishies Swimming in the Pink Sea’ by Eleana Bredemeyer

69. Eleana Bredemeyer

60 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Blue

From burning blue ground
clefts and ridges stained red hiss:
I do not speak.
I do not speak the language.
I do not speak the language of,
the language of my grandmothers.

Cuttlewoman

 

Little fishies swimming in a pink sea

I dream little fishies swimming in a pink sea
I dream mermaids, their cheeks ripe apples
their hair strawberry cream
they dine on rose petals and raspberry tea.
I dream dolphins, whale song, sea turtles
ancient, strong.
I dream little fishies swimming in a pink sea
my dreams are anything I want them to be

Liz Nicholls

 

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  1. ‘Eagle Mountain’ by Guy Rossi

70. Guy Rossi

50 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Here I sit on Eagle Mountain

All I’m sayin’ is
hey ref
c’mon and shine some
of your sunlight
on me

Here I sit on Eagle Mountain
Today I’m King of the world

Natasha Adams

 

Those Eagles climb
that mountain each
season, and I’m there,
blowing the horn,
using they r colours –
blue and gold, the
white – that’s my hand
stretched out to pull
them up. And they
get there, as I do.

Zan Ross

 

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  1. Artwork by Warren Brass

71. Warren Brass

75 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Skydive

we fall like autumn leaves
skydiving as the parachute
bellows open
and sky     cloudless
rushes in greeting
below                 the new-green of paddocks
and dams refilled
beneath    the orange and amber
the red and brick-brown
floating we become

         Alistair Bain

 

My House is a Zoo

The crocodile looks hungry
bears and tigers pace and growl
monkeys play, whoop and chatter
the elephant sways on the spot
from one foot to the other.
Seeing myself in the eyes
of a lion, it occurs
to me how alike we are.
I love being in the zoo
with my friends and housemates.

         Maureen Sexton

 

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  1. Artwork by Lisa Bernic

72. Lisa Bernic

58 x 48 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Panels

finding you in blues and greens, so vocal there
your voice a thick and vibrant red, your eyes see me
as I see you in colours, warm to everlasting
valiant threads, pulled tight in panels-
certain to catch and hold the breath

Rose van Son

 

Three Little Pigs

Three baby pigs in their farrowing pens
In coloured radiance flourishing
Freely twisting, writhing and lying prone
Fleshy organs, meat, blood and bone
Feeling their way into their piggy home.
Fretting ugly for food with piglet squeals
To their indulgent mother they make loud appeals.

Graeme Butler

 

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  1. ‘Smacking Munyee No. 2’ by Katie Bassett

73. Katie Bassett_Smacking Munyee 2

52 x 52 Acrylic on Canvas

 

when four butterflies
lift their wings and stamp
winds blow
everything down
flies up
everything up
flies down
but a flag caught in branches
shreds
thread by thread

         Coral Carter


nebula

main sequence
(extrapolation of the expansion)

use your colour index to
decode the cosmic microwave

your supernova smile
a burst of radiation

to briefly outshine
my entire galaxy

please say you’ll be my
cosmological constant?

Natasha Adams

 

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  1. Artwork by Vivienne Sharp

74. Vivienne Sharp

42 x 42 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Elementals

All honour the Green Dragon:
Guardian of water, plants,
Children

All honour the Red Dragon:
Guardian of fire, food,
Love

Elementals dancing
Joyous, equal, free

Liana Joy Christensen

 

contrast: opposition or juxtaposition of different forms, lines or colours in a work of art to intensify each elements properties and produce a more dynamic expressiveness. (noun)

 

green                                                                            red

in sweet pastures                                      in firelight

safe passage                                       danger beware

wounds heal                                         wounds bleed

cells multiply, divide                              blood boils

in  leaves  and  long  grass  in  hearts  and     war

plough shares and vines swords and swift arrows

green                                                                              red

 

         Coral Carter

 

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  1. Artwork by Peter Layton

75. Peter Layton

26 x 26 Acrylic on Canvas

 

give me colours
to sing along with
give me friends
who make me laugh

if you help me
I love to make pictures
no brush   just my palm
spreading colour   green   yellow   red

then we can read a story
take a walk

Sally Clarke

 

Nature

Flowers are blooming,
Red roses and daffodils,
Pollen’s bursting in the air,
Surrounding us everywhere.

Jayden Tan

 

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  1. Artwork by Richard Smither

76. Richard Smither

75 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas

 

The Freedom Flag

Fold up Old Glory and
unfurl the Freedom Flag
We will go to war no more

Each lozenge of colour
bursts with the fizzy joy
of its distinction

Beneath such a banner
we can gather and wage
unceasing peace

Liana Joy Christensen

 

To all my loves in rain-sodden countries,
I send you envelopes filled with
Perth sunshine,
Cottesloe sand,
smiles to go around.

Sue Clennell

 

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  1. Artwork by Jane Gribben

77. Jane Gribben

40 x 75 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Christmas Island Refugees

Barbed wire cannot contain life:
even with their lips sewn
their mouths speak.

Jake Dennis

 

The fence that is holding us back
deceives with its rich colours.
My heart ignores fences and
reaches out to you with my painting.
Challenges you to pull at the palings

Sue Clennell

 

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  1. Artwork by Katrina Barber

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60 x 50 Rug

 

Shout

In my hands I hold the world.
A patchwork field of colour
jostled and formed
individual, distinct.
Me, you, everyone.

I see possibilities I cannot hear
feel the essence of every colour
every object, every movement
and shout.

Gary Colombo De Piazzi

 

The line of it

And there it is
there , irrevocably, the line of it      your life
In the middle of it all like golden light
The refusal to be obscured     hidden     retrenched
From the sweep of the tapestry of everyone and everything

Your place is assured but in a soft and gentle way
Remarkable     deserving announced

         Christopher Konrad

 

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  1. Artwork by Candice Raphael

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30 x 30 Acrylic on Paper

 

Whispered words ebb and flow
to a mother’s lullaby
joining the song-lines
of tiny birds
caught on a breeze
woven through
a smocking and lace sky.

         Jacqui Merckenschlager


Random patterns of brain thought…
…playing delicately in head space…
skipping once, twice, like a repetitive dance.
Colours blending with the steps, complimenting each other
on the natural rhythm.

Julie Fearns-Pheasant

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