We are back from a short break in WA , refreshed and inspired after time with the family.Our batteries are charged by seeing Alisdair, Rish and Kevins new work they are doing for our coming exhibition in Wagga.
Alasdair's piece, a bush scene with a stockman on his horse. I can relate to it, he is quietly going about his business. Picking his steps with precision and ease like an experienced tradesman. He is making the job look easy and a calmness filters through the scene so you can almost hear the sticks cracking under the hoofs and the sound of far off birds. It all seems easy until you try it yourself. Staying in the saddle finding your passage through rough terrain, moving the animals in the right direction and of course finding them in the fist place. The near wild animals recognise a master at work and treat him with due respect.
To Alasdair I think it is more simple. He loves the bush and the freedom it represents. His world is simple and in perfect working order.
Kevin finished his last Urchin before we left. A large copper blue sphere that holds light. Every facet and lense refects and reveals endless patterns of the Urchin in to infinity. I can see a certain homeliness to it, a presence that shows a shell that was formed by a life after evolution cast its destiny.
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