The Innocence of Home - Australia #1
The Innocence of Home - Australia #2 2009
The Innocence of Home - Australia
This recent series of digital paintings, “The Innocence of Home - Australia” reflects on a sense of place with specific reference to nature and man’s relationship to it. The images try to explore what this relationship is from a semi-biographical perspective. Many of the images are derived from visits to Marysville, the Buda home in Castlemaine and my own home in Endeavour Hills. Images of Hermes (the God, Mercury), books (learning), the eye, the paintbrush, my home, abstract painting and nature painting are all references to my persona and identity in relationship to a sense of home.
The home is a place of refuge, much as the creating of a painting on a canvas has a feeling of relative safety. The creation of digital art through the use of the computer suggests for me a greater sense of the unknown, as if it is easier to ‘loose oneself’ in the digital world. The relative sense of safety of home is changing since 9/11 and global warming and more recently the Victorian bushfires. This series of work contemplates the changing world we live in.
This recent series of digital paintings, “The Innocence of Home - Australia” reflects on a sense of place with specific reference to nature and man’s relationship to it. The images try to explore what this relationship is from a semi-biographical perspective. Many of the images are derived from visits to Marysville, the Buda home in Castlemaine and my own home in Endeavour Hills. Images of Hermes (the God, Mercury), books (learning), the eye, the paintbrush, my home, abstract painting and nature painting are all references to my persona and identity in relationship to a sense of home.
The home is a place of refuge, much as the creating of a painting on a canvas has a feeling of relative safety. The creation of digital art through the use of the computer suggests for me a greater sense of the unknown, as if it is easier to ‘loose oneself’ in the digital world. The relative sense of safety of home is changing since 9/11 and global warming and more recently the Victorian bushfires. This series of work contemplates the changing world we live in.
