Joy McDonald

This work was inspired by American painter Richard Diebenkorn, one of my current favourites.  I love his interiors and his urban scapes in particular. His compositions are always interesting. Blue woman with three cups of coffee 76cmx102cm synthetic polymer I'm now working at The Shed - a Juggler's art space and I am ever mindful of the river.  Because of the cyclonic weather we were having, the river has been more like a wild animal than a serene waterway.  These paintings are my response to the river.   Inundation 102cmx76cm   A series of meanders across a broad plain 102cmx76cm  (selected for the Milburn Art Prize 2013)   River Reach 102cmx76cm Synthetic polymer. Red River 40cmx40cm mixed media

Vic Calthorpe, Mary Martin and I went sketching to Southbank a couple of weeks ago. This is the sketch I did of city buildings across the river. I should really find out the names of the buildings!!!! I liked the patterns of the windows in the old lowrise building in front. And of course, there's a motorway in front but I chose to omit it.

This is the painting I have entered into the Chapman & Bailey Belle Arte award. I have no idea where it came from (or where it is going). Giotto - because something about the colours reminds me of Giotto. What is a doppelganger? doppelganger - a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart legendary creature - a monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual. So there you have it.

Project 5 This is the diptych - mechanical object. The painting is based on my beautiful o ld hand-drill. I was thinking of the houses I've renovated and how I had to learn to use tools as I went along because I went to a ' home science' school for girls where I learned to 'set' a breakfast tray and make cinnamon toast! Nothing as useful as woodwork - that was a male domain. I was also looking at Picabia's mechanical drawings and I have appropriated the subtitle of one of his works - machine turn quickly - for the title of my painting - Homme et Femme . The text in the paintings refer to my high school and to Kurt Schwitters notion that machines are abstractions of the human spirit. Project 6 This series of 6 small paintings (40cmx40cm) are called Palimpsest and they refer to what David Malouf describes as 'sprawlingly unlovely' Brisbane. The architectural elements in the paintings are my sketches screen-printed onto the canvas. Brisbane peopl...

These are the paintings I've completed this semester at Southbank Institute of Technology Visual Arts course. Three of these paintings were inspired by Cy Twombly's Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor