Landscape
Perth Places People
After a long period of painting landscapes that he found in national parks or other places of outstanding natural beauty, Garry switched to the idea of doing a series of paintings about Perth Western Australia, his home city. These paintings comprise individual buildings, familiar city views and genre such as beaches performance and street events.
Since the Perth paintings Garry’s landscapes have been centred around the experience of seeing a white rainbow when he visited the Narembeen farm where he grew up.
Gate And Colonnade, Uni WA
Arch
Mounts Bay Road
The Chapel At Guildford Grammar
Old Mill
Sunrise At Winthrop Hall
Cathedral Square
London Court Entrance
Perth Foreshore
Barrack Street
Narrows Bridge
Perth Town Hall
Cottesloe
London Court
Lesmurdie
Leighton Beach
Old Palace Hotel (Facade)
December
Western Australian Landscape
The first and longest phase of Garry’s landscape paintings, mostly involved special places like national parks and occasionally overseas travel. The group of landscapes below concentrates on Western Australia, his home state.
Each painting was usually the result of a special moment. About Bunker Bay Seascape, Garry says “Both Bunker Bay and Cape Naturaliste were conceived in the same couple of minutes. I can remember walking walking out in the beautiful Naturaliste coastal heath landscape and visualising the first one then seeing the other when I looked back.”
Bunker Bay
Tree in Rocks near Gracetown
Gracetown Heathland
Cape Naturaliste
Cliffs at Shelley Cove
Coastal Anthem
Kareol
Tapestry
Refuge of The Spirits
Serpentine Hillside
Eastern Australian Landscape
The eastern states landscapes, like the ones from the west at this time comprise images derived from beautiful places, national parks and coastal scenery. Examples like Morning are about a special moment at Wilson’s Promontory, early morning sunlight and deep shade when the colours are most intense. Tone Poem is about a walk in zero degrees on the Kosciuszko plateau.
Seascape
LÁpres Midi
Above The Tree Line
Tone Poem
Morning Song
Nimbin Rock
Landscape Kiama
Study
Morning
Morning Landscape
European Landscape
Garry has visited parts of Europe and the UK numerous times. Catsbells was derived from hills rising from Derwent Water in the Lake District. In the UK, the Peak District and Yorkshire countryside are amongst his loves.
Whilst he is drawn to the historical centres of famous towns and cities of Italy, paintings are derived from the Tuscan landscape around San Gimignano as well as a townscape from Spoleto, Perugia.
Una Matina in Toscano
Duomo Spoleto
Campagna di San Gimignano
Autumn
Pennine Autumn Pink
Pennine Autumn Green
Catsbells