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The squabbling has started already: Brushes, paint tubes, palette knives etc: "wow, our new trolley looks great!" Workshop tools: "Hey! Chill out kids, that's OUR trolley!" There's an obvious solution… 😎

Chris the birthday boy gave me a lift home from the record shop with my new record crates. The man obviously has impeccable style, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the only car that he has ever owned 🔥 @howlandmoanrecords

Why Topsy Turvy? The wonderful response to my painting "Gunnamatta" at the weekend (see earlier post) got me thinking: how did Leon and Jan acquire my painting "Topsy Turvy" in the early '90s? And then it came to me. For many years, we had a rustic house in a forest west of Melbourne, originally built by master stonemason Peter Bee in the mid-60s. Peter was a genius at recycling and repurposing building materials, and had a truly idiosyncratic approach to design. The house had twelve sides (a duodecahedron, thanks Dad) and featured a central courtyard spanned by a twelve-sided radial pergola. This was built from "oregon", ie. Douglas fir. Which is a beautiful timber for internal beams, but not so great externally when exposed to the weather. After 25 years, the pergola was on its last legs, which is where Leon (RIP) came in. I engaged him in his capacity as qualified architect to design a new roof for the courtyard. The "fee" was my painting, "Topsy Turvy". Due to a difference of opinions between dear old Dad and myself, the roof was never built, and the house was sold after the passing of our parents. But we retain the bush block next door, and are very happy that the house is still in excellent hands. And the painting? It was inspired by a driving incident on a film shoot near Mt Isa in 1981. I was passenger in a Toyota HiLux driven by Bill the Unit Manager, who was just telling me how good he was as a rally driver when he took on a flooded creek crossing a fraction too fast, and we ended up upside down on the other side of the creek, with the HiLux sitting on its roof. The HiLux belonged to John the First Assistant Director, and had just been repaired after a previous crash, and it was quite the sticky situation. Quite. "Topsy Turvy", watercolour and gouache on paper, 1990

Special, special delivery: courier Rob and collector Jan with my brand new painting, "Gunnamatta". Jan contacted me a couple of months ago, wondering if I had any surf related paintings or prints available. Well, most have been sold and the older ones that I do still have are priced accordingly. "How about I paint you a new one?" Now Jan's late husband Leon was a great friend of mine, and back around 1980 he and Rob and I and various friends and girlfriends all shared a ramshackle old house on the beach which became known as Hoot Central. Jan was hoping that I might be able to paint one of Leon's favourite surf spots, perhaps Uluwatu, or even Gunnamatta. The original plan was that I would do some sketches and share them with Jan for her approval. But after chatting with Rob, I came up with an idea and told Jan "look I've got a really good concept, I'm just gonna do the painting and send it down and then you can pay me if you like it." This is where Robbie jumped in and said "hey, I want to be the courier!" We are all such good friends, and it was so sad when dear Leon passed away a few years ago after a long battle with cancer. Fast forward a couple of months, and yesterday afternoon Rob was finally made able to make the delivery of the painting to Jan in her beautiful house, which as you can see is full of art, and you can even see one of Leon's surfboards on the wall which I included in the painting. Jan and I were both a bit nervous as to whether she would actually like the painting but… she loves it! So win-win situation, and there is no feeling in the world like enjoying beautiful art. … #commissionedart #gunnamatta #contemporaryart

Art and the zen of mototricycle maintenance

Paintings are flying out the door this week. Enquiries always welcome 🖼️👀👍 Pic @camarzochi 😊

Special delivery. Usually they go on the truck, but this is a special painting for a special client. Big reveal next weekend if all goes to plan. Thanks so much to Lani and @roblorenzon for the special courier service!

I am a finalist in the Bindi Digital Art Prize for 2026! A little bird gave me the heads up on this opportunity, and I was immediately very keen. I love painting, as you know, but I'm also completely fascinated by the moving image and digital art, and have been for many, many years. They want me to put a price on my work and make it available for sale, which has got me scratching my head a little bit … hmmmm … 🤔 But minor detail, my artwork "Coming Round the Mountain" will be projected on the big screen in Alice Springs pretty soon, and now I can update my CV with something for 2026 🫠 Swipe for still frames from the project 👀 #digitalart #contemporaryart #experimentalart #videoart #theartofthemovingimage

When giclée prints were still very, very new! I was living at 69 Massinger St Byron Bay, so that dates this promo sheet at around '95-96. Anyway I found the master record of prints sold, so if I take the plunge on a large format printer we can resume the edition where we left off. And even try for a similar price point 🤔 The original prints were expertly done by @gregfurney and I remember we had an original watercolor and one of Greg's superb prints side by side on the desk and it was impossible to tell the difference without a magnifying glass. He set the bar pretty high! Sunset portrait photo by old mate @pm1byron up on Coolamon Scenic Drive. Surf must have been pretty good that day because that's a huge smile that I've got on my sunny dial 🙂

@ku.ba.o Sunday morning shred… spotto my painting "Three Musicians" on the wall in the background. I would have shared the Reel, but maybe it's set to Private, anyway he was sounding pretty good 🎸🔥 and I do love that Screaming Trees album, I've got that one on CD