Creative Connections Art & Poetry Exhibitions gratefully acknowledges the assistance, through the Community Grants Program, from the City of Belmont which provided the funding for the 2013 Exhibition.
Artists / Poets
- Lisa Joyce / Natasha Adams & Veronica Lake
- Peter Dixon / Deanne Leber & Alistair Bain
- Delores Purdie / Sarah Leighton & Andrew Burke
- Kristen Cameron / Graeme Butler & Meryl Manoy
- Stephen Franklin / Liana Joy Christensen & J.R.McRae
- Janine Noonan / Jan Napier & Zan Ross
- Greg Barr / Max Merckenschlager & Gary Colombo De Piazzi
- Karen Forbes-Smith / Deborah Micallef & Brigita Ferencak
- Michelle Tyrell / Carol Millner & Christina Gammon
- Catherine White / Scott-Patrick Mitchell & Kevin Gillam
- Deborah Meager / Nathan Hondros & Jacqui Merckenschlager
- Sharleen Jespersen / Val Neubecker & Peter Jeffery
- Chris Perriam / Liz Nicholls & Amanda Joy
- Darren Towie / Julienne Juschke & Ron Okely
- Lyndon Irvine / Veronica Lake & Colleen O’Grady
- Amanda Lonsdale / Deanne Leber Virginia O’Keeffe
- Elinor Doddrell / Sarah Leighton & Allan Padgett
- Warren Brass / Glen Phillips & Meryl Manoy
- Sharon Siciliano / Jan Napier & Keren Gila Raiter
- Colette Deavin / Coral Carter & Max Merckenschlager
- Joel Grant / Deborah Micallef & Peter Rondell
- Suzie McKenzie / Carol Millner & Shey Marque
- Dani Howard / Maureen Sexton & Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Andrew Murray / Michael Hilston & Jacqui Merckenschlager
- Paul Rusconi / Val Neubecker & Tineke Van der Eecken
- Donna Barnsley / Rose van Son & Liz Nicholls
- Lisa Coles / Ron Okely & Coral Carter
- Jenny Travers / Natasha Adams & Colleen O’Grady
- Cheryl Ham / Virginia O’Keeffe & Alistair Bain
- Craig Harvey / Allan Padgett & Andrew Burke
- Katie Bassett / Graeme Butler & Glen Phillips
- Vivienne Sharp / Rose van Son & Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
- Julie Marsh / Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Keren Gila Raiter
- Peter Iland / Brigita Ferencak & Carol Millner
- Pauline Birrell / Peter Rondell & Christina Gammon
- Wayne Knight / Jayden Tan & Shey Marque
- Diana Coote / Julienne Juschke & Maureen Sexton
- Lisa Bernic / Veronica Lake & Michael Hilston
- Sophie Melrose / Tineke Van der Eecken & Deanne Leber
- Shelley Marcolina / Sarah Leighton & Rose van Son
- Tamara Butler / Coral Carter & Meryl Manoy
- Ian McDonald / Natasha Adams & J.R. McRae
- Kevin Devine / Jan Napier & Alistair Bain
- Doug Fancourt / Andrew Burke & Max Merckenschlager
- Lindsay Stubbs / Graeme Butler & Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Wayne Cooper / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Liana Joy Christensen
- Anthony Mision / Val Neubecker & Zan Ross
- Karen Evans / Ron Okely & Gary Colombo De Piazzi
- Richard Smither / Liana Joy Christensen & Brigita Ferencak
- Joan Parker / Christina Gammon & Virginia O’Keeffe
- Jane Gribben / Kevin Gillam & Glen Phillips
- Nathan Garrod / Maureen Sexton & Nathan Hondros
- Josh Harper / Shey Marque & Peter Jeffery
- Kathy Adair / Peter Rondell & Amanda Joy
- Untitled artwork by Lisa Joyce
19 x 22 Acrylic on wood
breathe
you paint
the hues in my sunrise
bring me
that holiday feeling
will sing
my visceral song
didn’t know then
I was taking
my last breath
before you
Natasha Adams
Floating
Like migratory birds
Flocking the skies
Wheeling, turning
Fluttering in sync.
A dust storm of
Shivering colours
Restless, wind-blown,
Caught. Floating.
Veronica Lake
- Untitled artwork by Peter Dixon
30 x 42 Ink/watercolour on paper
A waterfall of colour
Cascading
Over page and thumb
The splashing sending
Little rainbows and bends of light
Stretching across canvas
Sticking under fingernails
Deanne Leber
I’m here I hide between
snow and flames
a dance on a railway
track or ladder
We burn cold red
and I turn the fire rage
into my blue
Alistair Bain
- Untitled artwork by Delores Purdie
42 x 30 Acrylic on paper
Exclamations of Joy!
To see the slow burn
of a sunset tango,
Sky dolphins chasing an earth dog,
A rainbow riot of joyous clouds,
A marketplace of spices,
turbans and veils,
sweet pink incense, and
fragrant herbs.
Simple satisfactions.
Sarah Leighton
Easterlies bring desert gold,
Westerlies bring wattle yellow,
Northerlies bring pindan red,
Southerlies bring crisp cold white.
Then a wild wind picks up and tousles
The multilayered rainbow loose …
How do we piece it all together again?
No need, no need, no need –
Nature’s palette is wild and free,
Painting pictures for you and me.
Andrew Burke
- Untitled artwork by Kristen Cameron
40 x 42 Pastel/acrylic on paper
Violent events
belie
their deeper
blue
mystery
Graeme Butler
Red earth, blue sky
reflected in a rock pool
trails of jets stream overhead
as the planes keep flying by
Meryl Manoy
- Untitled artwork by Stephen Franklin
2 (42 x 30) Acrylic on canvas
Aloft
A sudden burst, a flurry of feathers,
then silence . . .
Stillness at the centre.
One wing beat from this
green bird of paradise
sends my heart soaring
into blue empyrean
Liana Joy Christensen
Capturing Colour!
I hear the fall of rain, see it running down the pane.
Outside, the dust of windy days
Is washed away!
Soon there will be blooms, whose bright colours interplay,
An artist’s rainbow palette in the garden on display!
Tomorrow, there’ll be colours spread,
Across the patterned flowerbeds!
I’ve a canvas ready waiting
To capture all this
In my painting!
J.R. McRae
- Little House on the Prairie by Janine Noonan
50 x 38 Gouache on paper
Little House On The Prairie
Built of love and sod
this simple home
transforms frontier
into a glory of scarlet
bee balm tomatoes
and laughter.
Jan Napier
The sun is a
red balloon –
red, warm lens,
to see bees go
about their busy
buzzy day below
blue sky, white
clouds dancing,
dancing, and
kindness in the home.
Zan Ross
- Untitled artwork by Greg Barr
38 x 42 Watercolour on paper
Nightlife And Noodles
Far below us
silent traffic ants are teeming
on lamp-lit bitumen.
Our gracious waiter bows
to deliver steamy bowls of noodles
as we toast tonight
and the magic of the city
Max Merckenschlager
In the random placement of strokes
there is precision and intent.
A definitive desire to express
more than words, more than reality.
In this world confined within a box
there is more colour, more excitement
pushing the edge than one can contain.
No opportunity for remorse in the free
wheeling escape, the moment breath filters
beyond actuality to become unbound.
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
- Untitled artwork by Karen Forbes-Smith
Beads & silk on board
Looking for perfection
Scarlet, blue and gold
Amongst bead, ribbon and stone
Creating a style
All of her own
A life time of merging
Fashion and art
Each piece created
Comes from the heart
Deborah Micallef
Bead by Bead I show my Love
Red lingers longer than Sorrow can last
Life is pulsating
Beat by Beat
never failing
My heart
gently vibrating with my Soul
Every Distance is measurable
no step is further than the Other
Interwoven Stability
Brigita Ferencak, “The Wandering Gypsy”,
- Untitled artwork by Michelle Tyrell
30 x 30 Acrylic/metallic on canvas
from out your mouth
rivers of paint
swirl in tongues
Carol Millner
I parasail at night
In this darkness their eyes are my light,
beams that bounce atop waves like fairy dust.
Their smiles,
the kaleidoscope of colour keeping my toes
dry.
With the rise and fall
my love for them flaps freely in the wind,
holds me hostage, harnessed,
my heart in my mouth.
Christina Gammon
- Untitled artwork by Catherine White
41 x 47 Dye on silk
broken.
parrots can’t sing. instead
they bring colouring, a filo
-plume of brightest hues
: blue to rival wing; red
as if bled; yellowing that
mimics wheat waving you
how-do-you-do. to open
beaks is to shriek without
rhythm or beat. pretty un
-til they speak, the spell
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
coulds
could these be the smudges
of wonder?
smears of prayers
unanswered?
smarms of days
yet to come?
or crayons for your
colour-by-numbers inner child?
Kevin Gillam
- Teapot No. 1 by Deborah Meager
Teapot, glass & ceramic paint
a world brews outside the pot and in:
an ocean, a sun and all that’s green,
held in human hands and shared by two
though never seen,
the start of each day in summer
poured out in equal measures then forgot,
a winter with its breeches filled with rain
one that’s not –
all this from colours painted thick and thin,
from a teapot.
Nathan Hondros
This Teapot
A smooth stone, polished in rushing streams,
reflecting a winter sky, a hint of storm,
the heath-stained waters preparing to tumble
over granite boulders, cascading to the valley,
a whiff of campfire smoke,
an infusion of spices and mint.
Jacqui Merckenschlager
- Untitled artwork by Sharleen Jespersen
67 x 57 Acrylic on canvas
Meteor
a boulder hurtles
through space
dark, leaden, dull
until Earth’s atmosphere transforms it
into a shower of brilliance
from here,
a tiny streak in the sky
up close,
a symphony of light and heat.
Val Neubecker
Oh, Sharleen! what is this you’ve seen?
Dust storm or bee swarm –
it crowds out sky blue
with fiery red and cloudy black.
Buries everything, hides the track.
Are we safe inside at home,
or must we scurry hurry all alone?
Oh what a sight to see,
Glad it’s you and not me!
Peter Jeffery OAM
- Untitled artwork by Chris Perriam
28 x 33 Oil pastel on paper
green kite soar
into sunshine
glide between ocean and sky
dance with the wind
and when you tire of wandering
come home to me
Liz Nicholls
After the buried span of winter
Wind-stroked undergrowth
sprouts wheels of colour
soleil-lit faces lean in close
to view the other side
of being scissors, paper, stone
shapes scatter like butterflies
from the delicate mathematics of a
sun-caught flower
Amanda Joy
- Untitled artwork by Darren Towie
46 x 90 Acrylic on wood
Bated Breath
The backdrop is secured
The stage is lit
The audience awaits
A star to be born
Julienne Juschke
Capture the Green
Capture the green
Store it how you can
Some days are brown
You’ll have all you need
to watch dull days go by
Ron Okely
- Untitled artwork by Lyndon Irvine
49 x 39 Acrylic on paper
Anemone (windflower)
heart in shadow
quiet and still;
centred.
eye of the storm
unfolding
like a flower
an anemone
shaggy petals
purple with love
Veronica Lake
Dabs of purple, mauve and silver
to the darker centre so beautiful and striking,
spread across the canvas in shading a-quiver.
Lyndon’s art as Billy Joel was singing
his favourite tune, with more palette work
to give the darker centre a final polish.
To create an open Chrysanthemum look he didn’t shirk.
Learning the art was Lyndon’s greatest wish.
Colleen O’Grady
- Untitled artwork by Amanda Lonsdale
54 x 45 Acrylic on paper
We dodge frogs on steps
Their night call in time
With the glittering of stars
By day
Reeds shelter light
Cicadas cling
Their call lingering
We frame
Sunrise sunset songs
No words
Deanne Leber
The easterly wind roars in off the desert
Beats dints out of tin and tears holes in tarpaulins.
Those without shelter bunk down in their swags
face the brick walls and wait for the world to cave in.
But the cricket of grasslands cling grimly and fiercely
and sing in the face of the increasing din.
They may be the minions of nature’s old kingdom
but a cricket can outride the easterly wind.
Virginia O’Keeffe
- Untitled artwork by Elinor Doddrell
49 x 39 Acrylic on paper
Birth of a Flower
Ochre sunrise
over faraway sea,
but here and now
a gentle revelation,
hot pink and luscious,
Hibiscus Flower!
Her yellow stamen
licks the salty air.
Sarah Leighton
Exploding Lilliums
A pink and vital, startling
rush of colours saturating
explodes in the vase
of life’s brittle fortunes –
I gasp at the florid power
of beauty and recovery.
Allan Padgett
- Untitled artwork by Warren Brass
58 x 49 Acrylic on board
Fighting My Way Through Fruit
There are some who do abjure
bowls of brimming fruits, the lure
of cherries and golden pears
clustered to soothe our cares
with sweet juices. And bunched grapes
deep purple cascading shapes
beg to be put to the tooth.
I do like fruit. This is the proof!
Glen Phillip
Dabbing, dancing as I paint –
the rhythmic movement of my brush
I experience liberation,
a feeling of exhilaration.
Meryl Manoy
- Summer Dreaming by Melisa Costanzo
50 x 40 Acrylic on canvas
Spatial Relations
I see and feel the colours
Make them bend and
Make them sway.
I arrange and rearrange them
So they dance beneath my fingers
Like a puppet troupe at play!
I don’t crowd them, I allow them
Each to have their way
So my canvas tells a story
And each colour has its say.
J.R.McRae
Summer Dreaming
Where algae bloom triumphantly
stretching tendrils over still water,
infiltration at its finest
and birds with blackened wings smudge
the sky with stories of survival.
Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
- Untitled artwork by Sharon Siciliano
50 x 40 Acrylic on canvas
Green is gritty
pink kinda slippery
yellow like feathers.
A firework burst
a bang and flash
to tell us
how life really feels
Jan Napier
Wetland in sunrise
Acacias bloom despite heavy grey skies
Red-capped parrots fly over your eyes
And the water is tannin-brown
Wetland in sunrise
the splendid wren parades it’s blue lichen prize
Silvereyes feed on leaf insects and flies
And the grebe is in plumage down
Keren Gila Raiter
- Untitled artwork by Colette Deavin
50 x 40 Acrylic on canvas
I
I smiled
I smiled when
I smiled when I
I smiled when I saw
I smiled when I saw my
I smiled when I saw my name
I smiled when I saw my name painted
I smiled when I saw my name painted on
I smiled when I saw my name painted on paper
I smiled and smiled – a paper painted smile on paper
Coral Carter
Spin Bowler
Take Guard!
Avoid his mesmerizing eyes,
his leering and confident smile.
Concentrate on his fingers,
flipping and fondling that
weapon of mass destruction
as wickets around you tumble
Max Merckenschlager
- Untitled artwork by Joel Grant
50 x 40 Acrylic on canvas
Pastel flowers
Layers of colour
Lilac bursting through a cloud
Spring orchids blooming
Deborah Micallef
The mind on wakening
Sweeps aside the colours
Of a million dreams
Peter Rondell
- Colour My World by Suzie McKenzie
2(25 x 30) Acrylic on canvas
Flow
The photo they sent me shows
Suzie working; a wooden paint brush taut
in her left hand; a white mug with a handle
that looks like an ear listening out
for the in breath that comes
before the flow of
lemon-honey yellow
mid-night blue
flame tree red
Carol Millner
Over the crest of the coastal dunes
when Earth’s shadow meets the Belt of Venus
and illusion moon hangs low, translucent
beasts huddle tight in wait for swollen spring tide
catch a ride upon the melting beach
sink down onto quilt of coral castings.
Shey Marque
- Untitled artwork by Dani Howard
25 x 30 Acrylic on canvas
Karaoke Action
Stage left
microphone in hand
singing blues
Aussie rock and roll
Kylie and Guy
twirling of lights
a room full of
lilt and laughter.
Maureen Sexton
arc.
it reminds me, sadly, of
that story bayden told
: how an hour before the
hailstorm, all of the black
cockatoos at kings park
hid beneath the awnings of
what new man made there
, but because beauty likes
to rush, 32wo of them flew
mid-deluge, died in a giant
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Untitled artwork by Andrew Murray
62 x 62 Acrylic on canvas
I Remember when
I was a young boy
Each Christmas each Easter,
Was so filled with joy,
Now the years
Tick by so fast
Though my memories of childhood
will always last.
Michael Hilston
Tobogganing
A playful breeze peppers ice-crystals
from overhanging snow gums,
filling my upturned collar
as I twist and zip
down the mountainside.
A rush of deep blue
slices a snowdrift.
A splash of aqua
explodes upward.
Jacqui Merckenschlager
- Untitled artwork by Paul Rusconi
100 x 75 Acrylic on canvas
In Flight
‘Severe turbulence,
Please fasten your seat belts.’
I glance down from the window
and it’s as though
the striped flower fields
of Amsterdam
have been cut up
and stirred
with a fork.
Val Neubecker
The grid
It’s the colours of the team
the lines defining the playing field
It’s the green of the grass
and the yellow of the sun
It’s the cheering and chanting
the defying of rules
It’s you and me
watching the game, our game
It’s red, for love
Tineke Van der Eecken
- Untitled artwork by Donna Barnsley
30 x 60 Acrylic on canvas
Swing Dance
It’s your reflection that I see
your face near mine.
We dance together. Swing.
Rainbow colours
rotate the world
red, orange yellow…
but cool as well.
You dance your steps –
remind me of mine.
Rose van Son
flames dance smoke swirls
children shout rush about
sparklers sparkle pinwheels spin
best of all
there will be toasted marshmallows
for supper
Liz Nicholls
- Untitled artwork by Lisa Coles
66 x 51 Acrylic on canvas
Drifting Along
When the wind blows
and the clouds drift
I could ride horseback
to the moon
Today
I’m in the coffee shop
drinking coffee with
my friends
Ron Okely
tongues flick lick crackle
tongues singe pop flare
tongues flame sear scorch
tongues spark spit sputter
tongues burn
Coral Carter
- Untitled artwork by Jenny Travers
25 x 30 Acrylic/modeling compound
Jennifer’s smile
pure sunshine
as I drive home
your glow
to navigate me
stars are just suns
that shine at night
Natasha Adams
Soothing Clime
Beautiful blues and soothing yellow
Make this art work soft and mellow,
Another dash of blue and Jenny laughs,
Paint everywhere so needs baths.
A different stroke and what has she here?
A diamond shape so very clear.
Giving a chuckle, a circle she smooths
With softened yellow while music soothes.
And family come to enjoy some time
With a beautiful lady of artistic clime.
Colleen O’Grady
- Untitled artwork by Cheryl Ham
40 x 30 Acrylic/modeling compound
Summer is bursting
sweating at the seams
over ripe and blowsy
lulling winter’s dreams.
Catching us in torpor
drawling, wait a while;
rolling waves of heated air
translucent, quartzite white,
but fiery is her furnace breath
loosely tethered ‘neath her smile.
Virginia O’Keeffe
call this a bird
if you like and these feathers
raised for blind fingers
quilt covering the bright heart
breathing out colour
where the ’bow begins
Alistair Bain
- Stormy Weather by Craig Harvey
32 x 42 Acrylic on paper
Tumescent Skies
A tumbling rumbling raucous
sky greets my gaze
as I ponder where clouds
go after seeding earth
with drenching rain –
their vivid blueness,
saturating.
Allan Padgett
Wha-hee! Wha-ha!
The wind refreshes everything
And stormy weather brings rain
To fall down on us again.
It spittles and splurts
To enrich the earth.
All flowers and plants
Pull up their pants and dance!
Wha-hee! Wha-ha!
Andrew Burke
- Smacking Munyee -Series 3 by Katie Bassett
32 x 42 Acrylic on paper
Twice constrained
my heart aches
for blue sky unbounded
Graeme Butler
Defiance In Pink
So long ago spring showers shattered
the riotous pink of petunias, newly
in flower in school gardens. It mattered
in that inland red-dust town to duly
honour our British origins with those neat
beds of blooms and well-swept gravel paths.
Yet outside the schoolgrounds in the bush, great
carpets of pink everlastings made swathes
of defiance to colonial invasion,
and ghost gums added their persuasion.
Glen Phillips
- Untitled artwork by Vivienne Sharp
52 x 42 Acrylic on paper
Wildcard
A butterfly’s burnished wings
alive with light and heart.
Will she fly, this wild card?
Will she send you back to me?
Rose van Son
Freedom
Pinned to paper and trapped by glass
I imagine this butterfly breaking free,
the wind will carry a stunning creation, alive again
to the ends of the earth where it will paint the universe
red.
Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
- Untitled artwork by Julie Marsh
32 x 42 Acrylic on paper
In my mind, life’s more than four walls.
There is depth in abstract thoughts
that birth bold colours.
The primary focus of possibilities
in a world without barriers.
Where what was, can be what is.
Free to be more than defined by reality.
There is colour and laughter, the sweet release
to flow strong and proud. In my mind
I can be red, blue or green with a smile.
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
There are ways through and ways around
Paths going up and paths going down
There’s a river through the sky and a key to my heart
There are purple fields of flowers, and love inside her art
I am green tracks through the fire
I’m a crawler and a flier
I am white for hope of peace
Integration and release
Keren Gila Raiter
- Untitled artwork by Peter Iland
32 x 42 Acrylic on paper
An inner Whirlwind
Strong and High
My feelings are lifted
Into the Sky
My life’s ingredients
Whatever comes
I invite it in…
Brigita Ferencak, “The Wandering Gypsy”
Aneni
Sea set to split
burning bush
apocalyptic sky…
surely that’s Moses
mumbling something
outside the frame
while the women,
shouldering babies, bedding
and unleavened bread
wade into the waves.
Carol Millner
Aneni translates from Hebrew as “here I am”
- Untitled artwork by Pauline Birrell
32 x 42 Acrylic on paper
Amazon worlds
Secret creatures
Rainbow petal rain
Peter Rondell
In the silence and space
Lavender essence-
hangs in the silent air,
evaporates off linoleum drying.
Boxes-
filled to store and restore
order, stillness of mind, peace.
Ticks-
all in a row
tie dyed by tears of emptiness.
Christina Gammon
- Untitled artwork by Wayne Knight
32 x 42 Acrylic on paper
The Jungle
Monkeys swing from vines to vines
in a very metric line.
Tigers hunt and prowl down low,
scaring preys and seeking foes.
But there is a beast as we speak,
that makes its enemies look very weak.
Lion, hear it roar with power,
making the jungle hide and cower.
Jayden Tan
If you were to whistle his name on a flute
or sing out your sorrow like Arion, just
watch the tail of his blue shadow shiver
in the wake of the bow, listen to him coo
as if you were a hatchling dove fallen
from the nest, return his joker’s smile
as he tempts you to sit astride his back
and trust the rhythm of wild
Shey Marque
- Untitled artwork by Diana Coote
32 x 42 Acrylic on paper
Spring Delights
a weave of water
from winter rain
beneath a bloom of bottlebrush
and billowing breaths of spring
Julienne Juschke
A Cacophony of Birds
Kookaburras’ raucous laugh
taunting the snake
having a good time.
Cassowaries’ rumble
vibrating through the tropics
threatening trespassers.
Screaming cry of the
peacock warning all
to stay away.
Maureen Sexton
- Untitled artwork by Lisa Bernic
40 x 31 Acrylic on canvas
Tropical Cocktails
We toast summer:
To its warmth,
long lazy afternoons,
the heady fragrance
of frangipani flowers
and bright hibiscus.
Our tropical cocktails
are raised high
in celebration.
Summer; we salute you.
Veronica Lake
Colours
The colours of the rainbow
in the sky
Make me wish
That I could fly
It’s not to be
But all the while
Nothing can take away
my smile
Michael Hilston
- Untitled artwork by Sophie Melrose
40 x 30 Acrylic on canvas
Walk with me
Let me walk beside you
unpick your worries
with colours
yellow for friendship
pink for happy
blue for the flowers
we discover along the way
Tineke Van der Eecken
We lathered our lips with colours
Puckered up to mirrors
Practiced kisses on the backs of hands
On envelopes and posters
In purples and pinks and giggles
I want to curl you into candy
Wrap you in shiny paper
And carry you around in my pocket
To pluck you from clouds you sit upon
And wish upon
Deanne Leber
- Untitled artwork by Shelley Marcolina
52 x 62 Acrylic/texta on paper
Shining Through
Electric blue shards
frame
a stark white tail-feather
Radiant light shines over
a shy face peeking,
through the crimson mist
Delicate visions
surface and hide,
like tea-leaves
in a much loved cup.
Sarah Leighton
Summer’s heat
In the forest a blue wren
drifts between branches of new trees
breathes night air
warms himself on honey dew
for here is where dreams begin.
Rose van Son
Back to top
- Untitled artwork by Tamara Butler
62 x 52 Oil pastel on paper
a colour parade
clamours through
my quilted dreams
each contained
within their patch
each one stands
their tinted ground
each one chants
a different verse
of patchwork sleep
Coral Carter
Colours – a language of their own –
white is pure, spirit violet,
green for health, pink speaks love,
gold and blue – ideas and thought –
in this work Tamara’s caught
them all in balanced form
and so a vibrant painting’s born.
Meryl Manoy
- Untitled artwork by Ian McDonald
32 x 42 Acrylic on canvas
nature-scaper
Ian creates vast gardens
hides nymphs of cool blue
animates springs and rivers
trickle down mountains
cool grottoes
to wait in groves
it is life giving
to look
through the raindrop
Natasha Adams
The Beholder
Fingers of colour play
Lightly on canvas,
Teasing the palette, taunting the eye.
What do you see, what do I spy?
Shapes that are shifting,
Textures that sway,
Tones that are blending,
The message they’re sending’s
Whatever their audience
Wants them to say!
J.R. McRae
- Untitled artwork by Kevin Devine
60 x 30 Acrylic on canvas
Fans gobble hotdogs
Cats stalk and tackle
bulldogs mark their men
and demons play dirty
but blue and gold kicks free
of the pack.
An Eagle soars scores.
Premiers again!
Jan Napier
we’re watching we
have angles we have
space autumn beach water
washes on games we’re
playing we don’t call games
our laughter tumbles as
summersaults and
crowds gazing
applaud
Alistair Bain
- Untitled artwork by Doug Fancourt
27 x 36 Mixed media on styrofoam
Ants and worms and centipedes
And slaters and ladybirds
Dance to your music as it weaves
Its way. They pick up your tune
And take it to their nests,
A mumble here, a humble there.
What you sang so sweetly
Fills a thousand nests –
All the minutiae of Nature
Boogie woogie from dawn till dusk.
Andrew Burke
Space Junk
Observe! Listen! We are not alone.
Man has spread his trite tentacles,
littered once-pristine heavens,
touched and tainted
the immeasurable forever.
Max Merckenschlager
- Untitled artwork by Lindsay Stubbs
40 x 50 Mixed media on canvas
Thrown from a car
the tape lays out its
trax in the bush
Graeme Butler
gleefully.
? the reality: sound is
an angelic filigree. a
deck-brain shall go in
-sane from biting at it
. the reel of the real is
what you feel when a
heel starts tapping. cas
-sette & care-free, start
rapping, greening verse
to unspool some moves
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Untitled artwork by Wayne Cooper
40 x 50 Acrylic on canvas
Woman Tree
Alone she stands
in a winter green paddock
toughing it out. Summer fires
have hollowed her trunk. She straddles
the ancient land, head held high,
arms beseech the heavens to send soft rain,
sustain her new growth
and clothe her nakedness.
Jacqui Merckenschlager
Ent Trance
Entering from right of frame
he tiptoes across this picture
like one of Tolkein’s fabled tree creatures
slipped from the leaves of Middle Earth
Caught mid-stride, freeze-frame —
Is it a man in camouflage?
Or a tree-man freed from roots?
Either way, I am Ent-tranced.
Liana Joy Christensen
- Untitled Artwork by Anthony Mision
50 x 40 Acrylic on canvas
Game Of The Gods
the field is set
as Thor opens the bowling
he storms in
limbs flailing
mouth foaming
spittle flying
and delivers…
look out!
it’ll be fast… and short…
a real thunderbolt!
Val Neubecker
The white space of
Imagining: Earth rising –
a choreographed dance
of the Universe under
the Green Dragon.
Zan Ross
- Untitled artwork by Karen Evans
50 x 40 Acrylic on canvas
Accidental Art
Cooking scones
I drop the sultana bottle
Fetch the brush and pan
No Wait
Look at the picture they make
One sweep
and it’s gone
Ron Okely
There are days when I am flashy and red
without direction. Where nothing is planned
and I skip around minor obstacles, dance
to a tune sourced from a depth beyond
ordinary days to build higher and higher.
Leave traces of where I have been
against an emptiness that draws me in.
Merged in the red blood of country
in the red desert sand, shot through
with the dark traces of man.
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
- Untitled artwork by Richard Smither
40 x 50 Acrylic on canvas
The Ark of the Covenant
We came by ark
the giraffes, lions, doves
seeking refuge from God’s wrath
We came by sailing ship
from our emerald home
seeking refuge from famine
We came by boat
seeking refuge
Look out for the rainbow
Send out the dove
Liana Joy Christensen
A chalice, filled with friendships
Never leaving me thirsty
Unemptied it provides for me when needed
Protected in its Shadow
I am not Alone
Brigita Ferencak, aka “The Wandering Gypsy
- Untitled artwork by Joan Parker
40 x 50 Acrylic on canvas
Perspective
Mind like a river.
Thoughts flow, fork, flood
to nothing, nowhere.
White space blankets, blinds.
Overcome I flip so that
objects float freely,
space comforts, calms,
perspective gives
peace.
Christina Gammon
The lady in the red hat enjoys a day in town;
in Hay Street she dines at noon
then strolls the arcades down.
She buys a comb in David Jones.
And in King Street, in a boutique
she purchases a bassoon.
But when Town Hall clock ding dongs a chime
she knows her time is done, and off she trots
to Barrack Street, to catch her bus for home.
Virginia O’Keeffe
- Untitled artwork by Jane Gribben
40 x 50 Acrylic on canvas
ruse and bleds
yes, an unusual species –
tepid water tropical –
fast breeders,
bottom feeders,
from the inner lagoons
but no,
only in the two colours
Kevin Gillam
Arterial Dancing
We, like all living things,
still resist inanimate matter—
cold indifference of inorganic stone.
For we dance the warm blood
all the way down the highways of our
arteries, even return journeys in veins.
These red and blue traceries advertise
our differences from the lifeless clay—
our anti-matter dance is every day.
Glen Phillips
- Untitled artwork by Nathan Garrod
40 x 50 Acrylic on canvas
Jellyfish
Jellyfish were here long before
the dinosaurs – not bad for an
animal without a brain.
They jet propel themselves
through the water and sometimes
crabs hitch a lift on their backs.
Jellyfish travel in groups called
‘smacks’ and they might only live
for a day or a year. Jellyfish are
shy and quiet and lots of fun.
Maureen Sexton
My friend Pete said, ‘painters think in paint’
and that was like a key in a stiff lock
and now all these words uncoupled
from all they express light up
the poems that spent the day in darkness
snapshot of quick spun colour
the red and blue, earth and alizarin
the turpentine run down the canvas
painters thoughts know directions
in poetry that doesn’t search for words
Nathan Hondros
- Untitled artwork by Josh Harper
25 x 28 Oil pastel on wood
Because I live at number nine
destiny will shape my life. I have
initiative and courage, being a born
survivor. Since moving here, I
have become a night owl and spend
my time painting everything I see. With
so many windows and doors, it’s difficult
to keep the house warm this winter. I
don’t know why that bird wants to fly
in through my window.
Shey Marque
Hey Josh, great to be behind the bench,
there with the coach and team,
so we can sneak a peek at his battle plans –
all that criss-cross stuff!
Is that a player in the right corner?
Lining up for the winning goal
do you think?
Uh! uh! He’s seen us looking,
Will he scrub his board clean?
Nah! He’s grinning, he knows we want them winning.
Peter Jeffery OAM
- Untitled artwork by Kathy Adair
29 x 35 Acrylic on canvas
Day dreaming
Beneath a cloud
Of cherry blossom
Peter Rondell
“Cause somewhere in the crowd there’s you” from Super Trouper by Abba
and pink is a tint
a rose quartz glint
in a shimmering swarm
Honey-held tongues
all a-giggle gold-flecked
smeared light long
through warm home
full colour choir
this blossom is a hive
Amanda Joy
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