has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
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I have always admired the "Waterlilies" of Monet so I took a photo of the tropical waterlies in the Cairns Botanical Gardens and then painted them. Unfortunately these gardens were mostly destroyed by Cyclone Yasi in February. This painting captures that moment of the beauty of these gardens.
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This painting tried to capture a cloud rising from the rainforest below Kuranda in North Queensland at the start of the wet season.
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I digitally layered and manipulated three watercolour sketches and printed the image onto OHP film. I projected the image onto a stretched canvas and painted in acrylic. I used acrylic glaze washes to produce the misty effect.
