Beach Sketches, Sydney Ocean and Waves Portraits
On view at Mosman Art Gallery

This one, called "Winter" is currently on view at Mosman Gallery (Art Gallery Way, Mosman, NSW, Australia).  It's big (92x122 cm or 3x4 feet) by itself on a wall as you come up the stairs.  It's done with inks on canvas.  It's based on a very large fig tree in North Harbour Reserve in Balgowlah.  Since it's by itself, it has grown out in all directions without hindrance, and it's enormous.  It usually is a giant green, beautiful tree, but when the leaves dropped, it became possible to see the structure of huge limbs and masses of tiny branches.  I started drawing and painting the tree as spring approached, and the leaf buds swelled.  Im happy to report that it's already a mass of green again.