Woman With Turbine.

This is one of several older artworks that I’ve put up onto Bluethumb recently. It’s a very good opportunity to buy early artwork that displays the starting points of the ideas, colours and style that are developing and emerge later in my artistic career.

I had moved further to the north of the Mallee, to the Millewa district, and decided to walk around Lake Cullulleraine to look for possible artwork ideas. It was a profitable walk, which yielded two paintings, Woman With Turbine, The Lover’s Picnic and a drawing, Two People in Love.

I was coming close to the end of my walk when a rusty object caught my eye in the distance. It looked like a giant shell. It was very industrial with big bolts and thick metal yet it had such a strong sculptural form that was immediately engaging. Painted from May 1998 through to the following January this artwork, at one stage, was to have a Mallee scrub background but this was decided against in favour of a more open, desert landscape. Signature is at bottom left.

This painting, arrives stretched, ready to hang on a quality frame, and is finished with a double varnish coat. It is packaged securely in a shipping crate and is well safeguarded with protective layering. My work comes with a certificate of authenticity and often contains notes on the artwork’s providence.

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Born in Hampshire, England, Colin arrived in Australia in 1971 and found work making chandeliers and later delivering rental televisions. Studying for matriculation over two years at night school he enrolled in Art College at the Preston Institute of Technology in 1975. A number of leading artists taught at PIT and Colin had the opportunity to work in audio with David Tolley, conceptualism with Dom De Clario, with the hard edge painting of Dale Hickey and the large, expressionistic work of Peter Booth, all of who have subtly influenced his own art. Majoring in Sound and Painting Colin left to drive taxis and to teach Art. Failing to heed the advice of a gallery director who told him to consider concentrating on one genre and sticking to it Colin continues to produce figurative paintings and drawings; large, ambient, colourwork and the occasional sculpture, installation and audio work.
About my artwork.
My work is generated from things around me that fit a certain feeling. At times I go looking and find them in places, or in objects and people. Other times I find them in a less active fashion, in sounds or perhaps in dreams or blends of colours. I find making artwork irresistible and enjoy the actual cognition of looking, listening and producing the work. Art is a rich tool, a mechanism that I can use to explore and respond to this curious and strange world where things appear both solidly real and also evasive and elusive.