The Great Divide
Dreamtime
45cm X 60cm
oil on canvas
Genesis
75cm X 100cm
oil on canvas
Lost
45cm X 60cm
oil on canvas
The Others
75cm X 100cm
oil on canvas
Behind the Red Door
75cm X 100cm
Acrylic on canvas
Out of Eden
45cm X 80cm
Acrylic on paper
Waiting For Adam
54cm X 77cm
Acrylic on paper
Afghans Lose their Camels
45cm X 60cm
Acrylic on cardboard
Blue Skies Over Friend's Church
75cm X 100cm
Acrylic on cardboard
The Lone Dancer
75cm X 100cm
Acrylic on cardboard
Smoko
45cm x 60cm
Acrylic on paper
The Touch
45cm X 60cm
oil on canvas
Australian Supper
128cm x 68cm
Oil on canvas
Our Ned Kelly
45cm X 60cm
Acrylic and crayon on T-shirt in fence paling frame
Half Cut
90cm x 60cm
Oil on board
From the Deserts the Prophets Come
45cm x 60cm
Oil on canvas board
Australian Story
117cm X 90cm
oil on canvas
6th February 1788 - The women come to Australia
"Scenes of riot and debauchery after the disembarkation of the women convicts tonight transformed Sydney cove into something resembling a gin palace attached to a brothel.
All this took place at night during a violent storm with lightening bolts which, at one place, split a tree in half, killing five sheep and a pig that were penned below it.
The licentious merriment began when some merchant seamen requested some grog from their captain. No doubt the man had good reason to comply, in the relief at getting rid of the last of his convicts, as he had faced a penalty of £40 for every convict missing.
Soon the sailors and convicts were in and around the women's tents, some queuing for sex, others making love with women they had forged attachments on the voyage. Others were swearing, fighting or singing.
While the scene was deplorable no action by the Governor nor his officers. Presumably they thought that intervention would have provoked a serious riot, and that it was best to wait for the morning to re-establish order.
The women, cooped up on the voyage and for another 10 hot and intolerable days outside Sydney Cove, had not too many chaste figures among them."
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