The Christmas Exhibition 2024

 To all our supporters thank you 

I hope all of you have a wonderful and peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2025.

Sally Douglas

Fire and Water 

Watercolour on paper

26 cm w x 36 cm h 

Peter Davidson - Xmas Donut

Oil wax acrylic on wooden panel

10 cm x 10 cm

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Diokno Pasilan  - Exitus 2021

Oil on canvas 

120 cm x 120 cm 

Chelle Bourne 

Japanese Garden 2024

Brisbane

Linda Fardoe - Forrest Giants 2024

Ink applied on A4 plastic paper

Melissa Nolan McDougall

Above the City

Oil on canvas 

8 cm x 8 cm

John Cullinane

The Bourgeois Gentleman’s Dilemma

Oil on Linen

Marcia Hadlow 

Looking into the past 

Oil on Board 

30 cm x 15 cm 

Peter Davidson - Lake Biwa 

Pencil acrylic on 242 gem paper

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Autumn Spring Exhibition 2024

 It the change of seasons time again and here in Japan the weather cools and in Australia it starts to warm so please enjoy this latest digital exhibition at 

2 Dogs Art Space Japan

Thank you 

Harvest Time Nishi Ku Kobe_

Linda Fardoe

‘The Offering’

acrylic on aluminum composite panel

104 cm h x 90 cm w

Melissa Nolan McDougall 

Hui and Peacock Butterfly

oil on board.

20 cm h 20 cm w

Diokno Pasilan 

Fasten Oil on canvas 40 cm w x 50 cm h 2024

Chelle Bourne 

Star Swamp

Digital Image

Sally Douglas

Persistence - Watercolour

100 cm w x 80 cm h

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Marcia Hadlow

’Vessel’ Oil on board - 40 cm h x 30 cm w

Peter Davidson 

I am Not a printmaker but enjoy the process

The little Dog 2024

Perspex etching on paper

8 cm h x 11 cm w

Peter Davidson

Dog study 2024

Pencil pastel coloured pencil on paper

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John Cullinane 

Old News 

Oil on Linen

41 cm h x 51 cm w

Special summer holiday exhibition Hiroshige, Hokusai and a Edo period NIhonga Painter

Edo Period Nihonga painter apparently self taught and from Nara

Please enjoy this special summer holiday exhibition of images from Hokusai’s Manga Sketchbook Vol 12 from  Edo period, Hiroshige’s wood block Prints of Mount Fuji and a Nihonga painter from the Edo Period,

Edo Period wood block Print by Ando Hiroshige with Mount Fuji in background 

above and below.

These three prints above and two below are Edo Period and from

Hokusai’s Manga Sketchbook Vol 12.

These prints reveal his tremendous skill at drawing.

Please enjoy this special summer Holiday exhibition 

Thank you

Summer /Winter show 2024

John Cullinane

Song of the River 2024

Oil on Linen

45 cm h x 50 cm w

Please enjoy this latest series of artworks from the Rainy Season in Japan and Summer in Australia/New Zealand.

Thankyou

Diokno Pasilan

Seaside Monoprint 20 cm x 25 cm 2024

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L Fardoe

‘The Blue Tree’ in regional WA dead trees are sometimes painted blue to acknowledge the tragedy of youth suicide. Forests for me are meditative spaces where I find solace. 

Acrylic on wooden panel 40cm x40cm. Painted with cut up pieces of plastic cards. No brushes.

Melissa Nolan McDougall

     Portrait of Damien Youth

Oil on canvas 30 cm x 30 cm

Sally Douglas 

The Raven - Independence 

Watercolour

Full Sheet Watercolour

Marcia Harlow

Oil on Board

40 cm x 30 cm 

 

Chelle Bourne 

Star Swamp 2024 

Digital Photograph

Peter Davidson

Rainy season on the mountain 

Pencil, gouache, oil pastel on paper

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Diana Davis - Necklaces - From The Store House of Memory and Colour

Tropique Fantastique 

Necklace featuring funky crafted beads

 Necklaces -

 From The Store House of Memory and Colour 

Diana Davis

Diana Davis is a professor at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.  While her studio praxis is less than a decade old, her passion for design, for colour and especially for jewellery design has been a lifelong one.

Each necklace Diana makes is a unique creation inspired by the colours and forms of the beads and objects she collects. Of the 250 + necklaces she has created no two are the same; each has its own colour palette and design to enhance an individual wearer’s sense of personal style

Please enjoy this internet exhibition of Diana's artworks thankyou .

Iridescent green glass bead necklace with highlight

Jadeite beads approxiately 15 mm in diameter to a central brass feature bead,

Labradorite and silver bead necklace to a stg silver mother of pearl pendnt

Black Crystal necklace with green higlights to a green/gold emerald cut pendent 

Red, white and black necklace featuring a central rectangular bead with grey highlights 

Amber and Murano glass necklace

Dyed Howlite and French jet bead necklace to an oval inlaid mother of pearl pendant

It is the Hanami in Japan - the cherry blossom season please enjoy thiese images from Akashi.

Australian Exhibition in Kobe Japan

English follow Japanese 

「記憶と色の貯蔵庫から」と題された展覧会では、それぞれが創造的なエネルギーの源泉を持つ、非常に異なるアーティストの作品を紹介します。 ピーター・デイヴィッドソンは、プロのアーティストとして 40 年以上にわたって視覚芸術の実践と研究に深く取り組んできたため、芸術的記憶の軌跡は非常に長きにわたり、オーストラリア国立大学にて、視覚芸術の博士号の授与という形で最高潮に達しました。 

ピーターがこの展覧会のために選んだ作品は、崇高な視覚を反映しています。 世界初の小説として知られる『源氏物語』に記された、最初の記録からほとんど変わっていないように見える淡路島が呼び起こす感覚。 そして明石海峡大橋は、淡路の山々の前に突如として雄大に現れ、刻々と変化する海と大気の雰囲気を観察する中心点として機能します。 ある意味、彼の絵は、人々や漁船が行き交う海峡を描くことで、独特で美しい海岸線を描くという西洋の白人の視点を示しています。

一方、彼の盃の絵は、これらの素晴らしく作られた盃をかわしながらその日の出来事を語り合うという本質的な日本のコミュニティと社会構造を反映しています。 シンプルで持ちやすい硬い粘土には冬の燗酒が含まれており、海岸沿いの町や工業用埠頭に並ぶ居酒屋で工場労働者に混じるサラリーマンや女性まで、誰もが飲んで楽しむことができる。 さまざまな質感、形、サイズ、色、焼成システムを備えたこれらのは、陶器は、画家に無尽蔵のモチーフを提供し、そこからスタジオでの実践の楽しみを引き出します。

ピーターの共同出展者であるダイアナ・デイビスは、オーストラリア国立大学の彼の教授兼指導教員でした。 彼女がネックレスをアート作品として作っていることに驚いたことがきっかけで、今回の展覧会が実現しました。 彼女の実践は 10 年にも満たないものですが、デザイン、色、特にジュエリー デザインに対する彼女の情熱は生涯続くものです。 ダイアナが作る各ネックレスは、彼女が収集したビーズやオブジェクトの色や形からインスピレーションを得たユニークな作品です。彼女が作成した 250 以上のネックレスのうち、同じものは 2 つとありません。 それぞれに独自のカラーパレットとデザインがあり、それらを身に付ける人々の個人的なスタイルの感覚を高めます。

The exhibition entitled “From the Storehouse of Memory and Colour” presents the work of very different artists each with their own well spring of creative energy. In Peter Davidson’s case the trail of artistic memory has significant longevity as he has been a professional artist for over 30? 40? years with a deep commitment of the practice and study of the visual arts, the latter of which culminated in the award of a PhD in Visual Arts from The Australian National University. 

The works Peter has chosen for this exhibition reflect the sublime visual; sensations of Awaji Island that appear little changed from its first recorded mentioned in what is celebrated as the world's first novel titled The Book of Genji. The Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge acts as a pivot point for the observer of its ever changing sea and atmospheric moods that appear suddenly and majestically over the mountains of Awaji. In a way my painting exhibits a white western perspective on painting this unique and beautiful coastline with its people fishing boats and major shipping thoroughfares.

On the other hand his sake cup paintings are reflective of the essential Japanese community and social fabric where the stories of the day arediscussedt over these wonderfully made sake cups. Simple easy to hold, the hard clay contains the warm sake of winter which can be sipped and enjoyed by everybody from the salary men and women mingling with factory workers in the taverns that line the seashore towns and the industrial wharves. These ceramic cups  with their diverse textures, shapes, sizes, colours and ceramic systems of firings offer an inexhaustible vista of motifs to paint and  from which to derive pleasure in studio praxis. 

 

 

 

 

 

Wajima Earthquake

 In 2010 I was fortunate enough to do an art residency in Wajima City, Japan. Wajima has a beautiful old fishing village on the coast of the Japan Sea and before my residency, it recently had a very bad earthquake and was being restored (article at the bottom of the page refers to this earthquake and the old store house that the residency had taking place).

Whilst painting in Wajima one of the major sensations was the beautiful winter colours of the local sea, town and mountains as evidenced in the acrylic paintings below. Wajima is a truly romantic with its snow-covered windswept mountain coastline which I thoroughly enjoyed painting. 

Unfortunately it has been hit by another devastating earthquake so I have put a link below if anyone would like to donate to Wajima’s recovery, thank you.

Link to Wajima City article and where to donate directly to Wajima City (in Japanese) https://www.city.wajima.ishikawa.jp/article/2024010500020/

Wajima Japan

Acrylic on paper

23 cm h x 37 cm w 

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Wajima Japan II

Acrylic on paper

23 cm h x 37 cm w 

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Restoration article 

Wajima Winter

Acrylic on paper

21.5 h x 29.5 w