Tag: colour

• 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

• Dead or Alive

  Flowers, trees and the huge variety of flora are all around us whether flourishing, ‘dying’, or as cut flowers. I also enjoy their decaying process when their structure and form are often more apparent.

  dave urquhart

  July 31, 2014

  Flora, Garden, Photography, Trees

  black and white, colour, dead flowers, flora, flowers, form, garden, nature, Photography, shape, trees

• 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

• A walk by the Pacific Ocean

  The other day I went for a walk from Coogee to Clovelly. These are two beaches along the Pacific Ocean coast of Sydney. We are fortunate to have about seventy beaches, approximately thirty-nine of these are ocean beaches. My walk started at Coogee, easily reached by bus from my home in Newtown. As well as…

  dave urquhart

  March 22, 2013

  Trees, Uncategorized, Walks

  boats, cliffs, clouds, Clovelly, coast, coast line, color, colour, Coogee, diving, fish, fishing, Photography, rock face, sandstone, scuba, swimming, Sydney, Sydney beaches, Sydney sandstone, tinnies, trees

• Artspeak didn’t satisfy but the trees did.

  March is Art Month here in Sydney. There are gallery tours, studio tours and talks aplenty. Last evening I attended a debate in Kings Cross (as part of the Art Month program) called Contemporary Art Is A Joke. I have no view as to whether or not contemporary art, as a whole, is a joke.…

  dave urquhart

  March 17, 2013

  Art, Flora, Garden, Night, Trees

  Art, arts, color, colour, contemporary art, debate, evening, fence, garden, silhouette, trees