PORT ADELAIDE
During the weekends I used to go sketching in the afternoons. Port Adelaide was full of interesting early buildings, wharves and warehouses.
Here I sat on the jetty, near the seagull, and sketched the scene in one go in pencil. The date of the drawing is 1966.
MARTINDALE HALL CLARE
The following drawing of Martindale Hall Clare was done in 2014 in ink and water colour wash.
Martindale Hall was built for a wealthy bachelor pastoralist, Edmund Bowman Jr(1855–1921). The architect was Ebenezer Gregg of London, the chief supervisor was Adelaide Architect Edward John Woods and the builder was R. Huckson, who completed the work in 1880.
Due to the specialist nature of the work involved, 50 of the 60 tradesmen were brought from England, and they returned when it was completed.
The hall has some 32 rooms and also a large seven-room cellar, and its environs at the time also included: a polo ground, a racecourse, a boating lake and a cricket pitch.
It is not centrally heated even now and freezing in winter.
SUGAR GLIDER
I was only concerned here with his totally exquisite face and drew this in very fine graphite pencil with a touch of coloured pencil to the nose and ears. It took quite a while to do that much in such fine work, so I did not worry about his body, this being more a routine drawing job.
FAMILY MEMBERS
I completed a series of drawings of family members in a variety of media and at different times and places.
In the 1970s we had a family holiday shack at Lady Bay on the south coast of SA and I drew the three children Katy, Kym and Sarah there.
Sarah, the youngest of the children, is seen here ‘framed’ in native flora.
