Tag: architecture

• Dos Amigos en España

  I visited Spain for the the first time in 1963; I was twenty-four. It would be another twenty-eight years until I returned in 1991 and again in 1994. CAMPELLO Campelló in 1962 I went to Campelló in 1962. Dusty, dirty streets; unkempt houses andreal-life local bars, no pubs. I didn’t realise at the time that […]

  dave urquhart

  August 15, 2014

  Photography, Travel

  Al Hambra, architecture, Barcelona, black and white, Catalunya, coast line, color, colour, culture, Europe, Granada, history, holiday, people, Photography, photos, Spain, travel

• Walls, doors, windows and such

  A friend recently asked me if I was familiar with the photographs of Grant Mudford, an Australian artist working in the US for many years. I first encountered Mudford’s work when I was at art college in the 80s. His photographs appealed to me immediately and still do. I think of Grant Mudford’s art as […]

  dave urquhart

  March 25, 2013

  Uncategorized

  abstract, architecture, Art, art galleries, b&w, black and white, Brisbane, color, colour, exterior, interior, Melbourne, Photo Galleries, Photography, shadows, walls

• I do like Cezanne

  My life underwent a dramatic change of direction when  I went to art college. I started at East Sydney Tech (now the National Art School). I was forty-one years old; the other students were pretty much straight from high school. I faced quite a deal of staff opposition to my enrolment because I had nothing […]

  dave urquhart

  February 24, 2013

  Art galleries, Uncategorized

  architecture, Art, arts, Drama, east sydney tech, illustration, national art school, Photo Galleries, Photography, sydney college of the arts