My New Still life Paintings of Antique Navigation Instruments

I'm exhibiting these miniature still life paintings in 'Shelf Life' at the Trinity Delmar Gallery
Saturday 13th November- Sunday 5th December 2010

Reflecting quadrant and map

2009 oil on paper 10 x 10 cm

John Bird's sextant 2009

oil on paper 10 x 10 cm

Celestial Globe 2009 oil on paper 10 x 10 cm.

 

"Shelf life"

Trinity Delmar Gallery

144 Victoria St,
Ashfield NSW 2131
Tel: (02) 9581 6070
When: This exhibition opens 3pm on Saturday 13th November 2010
The exhibition continues to Sunday 5th December 2010

Gallery Hours: Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12-5pm

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Artist in Residence at the Maritime Museum

Watch paint dry!

 Plein air painting 
at the 'Classic and Wooden Boat Show'  
Marine Art Exhibition 
at the Australian National Maritime Museum,
16 - 17th Oct 10-4pm

An Update 
 

As well as exhibiting a few paintings, I'll also have some cards and small cheap works on paper available for sale.

Also - I shall bravely attempt some plein air painting at the Maritime Museum, close to the exhibition!

I will be there all weekend, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm, rain, hail or shine.
Actually you will have to watch for quite a while, before the paint dries - I work in oils!  

I don't know how much serious painting I will achieve, but everyone is welcome to come and watch and ask me questions. I know, this just proves that artists are crazy. It would be just as sensible to set up my easel in the middle of Victoria Road in peak hour.(which I have nearly actually done- it was on the median strip not on the road itself, and it was on a Saturday morning, not actually a weekday peak hour. But it was in the middle of a rather lively anti- Metro rally, so near enough. The result was chaotic yet interesting.)

I expect to do as much talking as painting.

Most people haven't seen an artist at work - one little boy said with wide-eyed wonder that it was like seeing a real live dinosaur! Quite. 

Come along and say "Hi !"

Marine Art Exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum

 Australian National Maritime Museum

I will be exhibiting these paintings at the  Australian Society of Marine Artists exhibition at the "Wooden Boat Festival"
WHEN: From 10 am - 4pm Saturday 16th October and Sunday 17th October 2010
WHERE: at the Australian National Maritime Museum
EVENT: Wooden Boat Festival
These are some of the paintings which I will be exhibiting on the October 16-17 weekend with the Australian Society of Marine Artists exhibition at the "Wooden Boat Festival"
The Australian Society of Marine Artists are a group of artists and others interested in marine and maritime art : painters, lithographers and printmakers, sculptors, model-makers and historians. Every painting style from traditional to contemporary, realist to abstract is represented : ships, seascapes, maritime history and heritage.

'The 'Spirit of Tasmania' departs for the last time

from Darling Harbour' 2006

oil painting on canvas 25 x 31 cm

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This painting is of a landmark in the history of Sydney Harbour - the final departure of the 'Spirit of Tasmania 3" from the East Darling Harbour Wharves in October 2006.
The 'Spirit of Tasmania 3" , (nicknamed 'Spot' by all the wharfies) was later sold to an overseas shipping line and I have heard that she has been renamed and is in use as a ferry in the North Sea.
The 'Spirit of Tasmania" numbers 1 and 2, are still in Australian waters, but their journeys are between Melbourne and Devonport. Occasionally they come to Garden Island, Sydney Harbour dry dock for repairs and maintenance.

The Sydney Heritage Fleet's tall ship, the 'James Craig' and Wharf 7, Pyrmont can be seen in the background.

The last journey of the 'Spirit of Tasmania 3'
It was an atmosphere reminiscent of the last day of school. People running around taking photos and swapping addresses. Manic excitement, regret, and a strange undercurrent of foreboding about what the future may bring.
To add to the sense of occasion was a touch of glamour. Added to the usual queue of cars and bikes waiting in the sun was a line of lovingly restored vintage cars, bound for a rally in Tasmania. In one of the many paintings that I started that day, I featured a green Rover and its patient driver in the foreground. I certainly had enough time to paint them as they were sitting in the queue from 9.30am to 2.30pm when they were finally allowed to drive on board. The Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, later acquired this canvas.
Everything that wasn't nailed down was hauled off and dragged on board. I mean 'Everything that wasn't nailed down' absolutely literally and not as a lazy cliche. I had been storing some canvases and easels in a little shed and suddenly had to leap up from my wet painting and rescue them from making an unscheduled visit to Tasmania. I nearly lost my cup of coffee which I had left perched on a concrete barrier when forklifts started to load all of the concrete onto the ship.

"'Endeavour ' Tall ship race -Australia Day"
oil painting on canvas 20 x 25cm

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A close up of the 'HMB Endeavour', one of the 'Tall Ships' making its way back to its mooring after the Tall Ships Parade on Australia Day 2007.

This was painted from the East Darling Harbour Wharves (now called Barangaroo) while the area was still a working port.

'The Tug 'Karoo' 2006

oil painting on canvas 28 x 36 cm

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For more information see My Pyrmont page in this blog

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My exhibition at the 2010 Sydney Open

Beyond the Sea

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From Barangaroo to Double Bay :
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"I saw the number '8' in red... "2010  
oil painting on canvas  51 x 76cm
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Enquiries about similar paintings
janecooperbennett@gmail.com

"Out of time " oil painting on canvas 31 x 31 cm

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"May Open without warning" 

(Inside the loading dock of the former Cruise ship Terminal at Darling Harbour 8)

2010  oil painting on canvas 51 x 76cm
Enquiries about this painting
janecooperbennett@gmail.com

Painted from a similar viewpoint as "May close without warning..."

"MAY CLOSE WITHOUT WARNING (Inside the loading dock of the former Cruise ship Terminal at Darling Harbour 8)"
oil painting on canvas 51 x 76cm
  Enquiries about this painting
janecooperbennett@gmail.com

"Night, 'Pacific Jewel'  from the
bridge of the Maersk Gateshead" 2010 

oil painting on canvas 61 x 91 cm

Enquiries about this painting

janecooperbennett@gmail.com

"The Pacific Jewel arrives for the first time 
at the new temporary facilities at Barangaroo" 2010 
oil painting on canvas 
36 x 46 cm
Enquiries about this painting
janecooperbennett@gmail.com

"The Pacific Jewel arrives for the first time
at the new temporary facilities at Barangaroo"
Diptych Left hand canvas 2010
oil painting on canvas 25 x 51 cm each
Total image size 25 x 102cm
Enquiries about this painting
janecooperbennett@gmail.com

"The Pacific Jewel arrives for the first time 
at the new temporary facilities at Barangaroo"

Diptych: 2010 oil on canvas 25 x 51 cm each 
Total image size 25 x 102cm
 Enquiries about this painting

janecooperbennett@gmail.com

"The 'Pacific Jewel ' at the new temporary

cruise ship facility at Darling Harbour"

Diptych- 2010 oil painting on canvas

25 x 51 cm each 

Total image size 25 x 102cm

Enquiries about this painting

janecooperbennett@gmail.com

See my post :  Barangaroo paintings of 'Pacific Jewel'

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