Curator Statement

This is me and my old dog, Spotty. We were walking on Chinamans Beach late one afternoon. Now, the sand wasn’t really black and the sky wasn’t really such a strong magenta, and the boats weren’t quite the colours that they were there. But this is the difference between art and photography. You can use, in a painting, all kinds of colours to give people the feeling of what it was like that time of the night, the feeling of what it was like for Spotty and I to be walking together. Unfortunately Spotty’s not with us anymore but I still often slip him in the corner of a painting somewhere. It’s another thing about art, you can make your dogs immortal.