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Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
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(first Image)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
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(first Image)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
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(first Image)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
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(first Image)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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.
#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
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(first Image)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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.
#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
.
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(first Image)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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.
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.
#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Thanks to everyone who made it along to the opening and my conversation with Poet Simon Mundy.

Another step towards Troy

is open daily
11-4pm until 28 June.
The Rodd
LD8 2LL

Huge thanks to the team @sidneynolantrust and Big shout out to @antonymottershead for accompanying me on this journey and always flying a steady course never lacking in vision nor too close to the sun 🌞
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(first Image)

The Myth of Sisyphus and Melancholia
Oil on canvas
155x136cm
2026
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#sidneynolan #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting #greekmythology
#sidneynolantrust

Still some places left on my workshop at the @sidneynolantrust this weekend…so if you’re feeling spontaneous, bored, inspired or just in need of some time away from the ‘doom scroll’ - consider spending the weekend with some artists; beginners and more experienced alike engaged in some serious play. We will be working with Nolan’s amazing kaolin primed paper stock to explore mono printing, mixed media and working on paper in oils.

11-4 lunch and refreshments provided.
dm to book or visit the link in Bio

(Untitled)
Monotype and oil on Kaolin Primed paper
31x25cm
2026

#sidneynolantrust #monoprint #contemparyart #workshop

Very excited to be part of Border Lands curated by @meadowarts opening this Thursday @hay_castle

Huge thanks to @adecharmant and everyone at @meadowarts

Opening 15 May – 31 August 2026, BorderLands brings together artists from across the world whose work explores borders, boundaries, identity, belonging and connection.

Presented in partnership with Hay Castle, the exhibition responds to a time of increasing division and political tension, asking how artists can help us rethink the physical, cultural and emotional lines that shape our lives.

Through photography, installation, film, sculpture and painting, the exhibition invites us to imagine new ways of living together beyond separation and exclusion.

Artists include: Larry Achiampong (@larryachiampong), Henna Asikainen (@henna.art_nature_and_belonging), Iwan Bala, Maya Rose Edwards (@mre_arts), Peter Finnemore (peter.finnemore), Leo Fitzmaurice (@leo.fitzmaurice), Ghazel (@ghazel______), Shilpa Gupta (@shilpaguptastudio), Mark Houghton (@dmhoughton), Gabriella Hirst (@gabriellahirst), Verity Howard (@verityhowardceramics), Charlie Hurcombe, Hilary Jack (@hilaryjack_), Delaine Le Bas (@dedelebas), André Lichtenberg (@andrelichtenberg), Daniel MacCarthy (@daniel_maccarthy), Helene Muheim (@helenemuheim), Lucy+Jorge Orta (@lucyjorgeorta), Sally Payen (@sallypayen), Corinne Silva (@corinne_silva) and Donovan Wylie.

The exhibition runs from the 15th May - 31st August

BorderLands is part of Meadow Arts’ three-year programme exploring borders through contemporary art. Supported by The de Laszlo Foundation, @colwinstoncharitabletrust30th Anniversary Fund and @aceagrams

#meadowarts #artplacesideas #borderlands #haycastle
Image credit: Lucy + Jorge Orta

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
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Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
_______________________

Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
_______________________

Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
_______________________

Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
_______________________

Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
_______________________

Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
_______________________

Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

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Sisyphus happy
Oil on canvas,
2026
_______________________

Part of Another Step Towards Troy
with Sidney Nolan
Open Wednesday-Sunday 11-4pm
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

_______________________

#contemporyart #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting #danielmaccarthy

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

I’m teaching a two day workshop on painting on paper, and the materials of Sidney Nolan at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Sidney Nolan, was a great experimenter with materials. Making many of his most famous works in household ripolin enamel he also experiment widely with surfaces favoring a hard gloss ground that allows the brushmarks to show through above all. In this workshop we shall be attempting to recreate some of these effects, even using some of his own kaolin primed paper stock, to make our own works that will attempt to explore some of the less conventional mediums and seek to free us from the constraints of convention when it comes to art materials.

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.

Images - a selection of early Nolan monotypes and two of mine at the end.

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#worksonpaper #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

Hello, I’m teaching a two day landscape painting workshop at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May. Tickets are going fast but there are some places left so act now if you want to join!

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

We will be working from observation at Nolan’s former home Rodd Court and its surroundings, as well as taking a dive into his approach to landscape in his native Australia.

The following weekend 16th and 17th May I will be running a workshop on Mono printing. More on this to follow..

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.
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#pleinairpainting #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

Hello, I’m teaching a two day landscape painting workshop at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May. Tickets are going fast but there are some places left so act now if you want to join!

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

We will be working from observation at Nolan’s former home Rodd Court and its surroundings, as well as taking a dive into his approach to landscape in his native Australia.

The following weekend 16th and 17th May I will be running a workshop on Mono printing. More on this to follow..

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.
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#pleinairpainting #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

Hello, I’m teaching a two day landscape painting workshop at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May. Tickets are going fast but there are some places left so act now if you want to join!

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

We will be working from observation at Nolan’s former home Rodd Court and its surroundings, as well as taking a dive into his approach to landscape in his native Australia.

The following weekend 16th and 17th May I will be running a workshop on Mono printing. More on this to follow..

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.
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#pleinairpainting #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

Hello, I’m teaching a two day landscape painting workshop at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May. Tickets are going fast but there are some places left so act now if you want to join!

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

We will be working from observation at Nolan’s former home Rodd Court and its surroundings, as well as taking a dive into his approach to landscape in his native Australia.

The following weekend 16th and 17th May I will be running a workshop on Mono printing. More on this to follow..

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.
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#pleinairpainting #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

Hello, I’m teaching a two day landscape painting workshop at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May. Tickets are going fast but there are some places left so act now if you want to join!

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

We will be working from observation at Nolan’s former home Rodd Court and its surroundings, as well as taking a dive into his approach to landscape in his native Australia.

The following weekend 16th and 17th May I will be running a workshop on Mono printing. More on this to follow..

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.
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#pleinairpainting #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

Hello, I’m teaching a two day landscape painting workshop at the @sidneynolantrust on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May. Tickets are going fast but there are some places left so act now if you want to join!

The workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced painters alike.
Price- £150 ( Lunch and refreshments included)

We will be working from observation at Nolan’s former home Rodd Court and its surroundings, as well as taking a dive into his approach to landscape in his native Australia.

The following weekend 16th and 17th May I will be running a workshop on Mono printing. More on this to follow..

To Book use link in Bio or visit the what’s on section of the Sidney Nolan Trust Website.
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#pleinairpainting #paintingworkshop #sidneynolan #landscapepaintings #sidneynolantrust

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Untitled (pandoras box)
105x105cm
Oil on canvas,
2026

Part of - Another step towards Troy
@sidneynolantrust until June 28th

I recently heard that it was the point at which humans began making art that Zeus panicked and released all the darkness and despair and war and famine and pestilence within Pandora’s box into the world to keep us in check. Intriguingly inside was also the gift of hope… 🌱
I am writing this on a boat from Athens to the island of Hydra where Nolan was often to be found in the company of his friends and fellow countrymen George Johnston and Charmaine Clift. Many of the Nolan works included in Another Step Towards Troy, were made here where he endlessly drew on Greek myths like Icarus. In her book Peal me a Lotus Charmaine Clift describes the kind of hope that keeps you going in-spite of everything towards what feels like a staging post whereupon you survey the terrain only to find it just as rocky as before, but the hope keeps you moving forward to the next staging post and so on. I guess we all live abit like this, though for many in these times the staging post is just making it to the end of the day alive. There is some debate as to whether the hope left behind by Zeus was a false hope designed to keep us suffering, In other words “it’s the hope that kills you”this brings to mind a quote by the choreographer Martha Graham who once said about artists, “ there is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time…only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching…” and I think in that lies a form of noble if blind hope at the heart of all creative practice that if one keeps going one might achieve the perfection that lies elusively somewhere behind the retina or in the imagination of the artist. I think this is what Albrect Durer was talking about in his famous engraving Melancholia from which I have lifted the mysterious polyhedron for my Myth of Sisyphus work. Camus asserts in his essay of the same title, that we must imagine Sisyphus happy; because he has accepted the absurdity of the world and so can embrace his task and the endless circuitous journey from staging post to staging post as the stuff of life.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Leda and the Swan at the Straits of Hormuz
Oil on canvas,
107x107cm
2026

As we sit teetering on the brink of a global recession triggered by the US and Israeli regimes in yet another act of imperialist brutality and genocidal nihilism, these events feel hubristic and their perpetrators malevolent narcissists. I’ve also read recent headlines talking about a clash of titans and thought It is interesting to note how the terms of classical greek mythology still populate our modern world. (Hubris originally meant a transgression against the gods in Ancient Greece, especially where mortals claimed to be better than them.)And yet the horrors perpetrated by our contemporary breed of self appointed gods seem to make the cruelty of Zeus and his many perverse acts of retribution and lust dwindle into insignificance. Nolan too was interested in utilising ancient mythology and superimposing it upon the seismic events of the 20thc, so for example Troy became Gallipoli in his retelling. Taking this as my cue, the work here becomes a place where I can cut and paste as I choose. Dispensing with the rapist Zeus in his bird disguise; In this work the dying swan is western hegemony as it lies in the arms of its victim as she considers the folly of these megalomaniacal figures that shape the lives of so many in this sad and beautiful world. And meanwhile the oil tankers are at anchor in the straits of Hormuz.

Medusa
25x35cm,
Oil on canvas,
2026

On show as Part of MacCarthy’s second institutional show with the @sidneynolantrust which opens tomorrow -

Another Step Towards Troy
pv 6-8pm

New canvases by Daniel MacCarthy alongside works on paper by Sidney Nolan in response to the Greek Myths.

followed on Saturday 28th at 2pm with a conversation between the artist and Nolan biographer and poet Simon Mundy.
All welcome, price with admission

Also showing work in the main house are @copycollective_Tending to Nowhere

#sidneynolan #sidneynolantrust #therodd #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting

Medusa
25x35cm,
Oil on canvas,
2026

On show as Part of MacCarthy’s second institutional show with the @sidneynolantrust which opens tomorrow -

Another Step Towards Troy
pv 6-8pm

New canvases by Daniel MacCarthy alongside works on paper by Sidney Nolan in response to the Greek Myths.

followed on Saturday 28th at 2pm with a conversation between the artist and Nolan biographer and poet Simon Mundy.
All welcome, price with admission

Also showing work in the main house are @copycollective_Tending to Nowhere

#sidneynolan #sidneynolantrust #therodd #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting

Medusa
25x35cm,
Oil on canvas,
2026

On show as Part of MacCarthy’s second institutional show with the @sidneynolantrust which opens tomorrow -

Another Step Towards Troy
pv 6-8pm

New canvases by Daniel MacCarthy alongside works on paper by Sidney Nolan in response to the Greek Myths.

followed on Saturday 28th at 2pm with a conversation between the artist and Nolan biographer and poet Simon Mundy.
All welcome, price with admission

Also showing work in the main house are @copycollective_Tending to Nowhere

#sidneynolan #sidneynolantrust #therodd #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting

Medusa
25x35cm,
Oil on canvas,
2026

On show as Part of MacCarthy’s second institutional show with the @sidneynolantrust which opens tomorrow -

Another Step Towards Troy
pv 6-8pm

New canvases by Daniel MacCarthy alongside works on paper by Sidney Nolan in response to the Greek Myths.

followed on Saturday 28th at 2pm with a conversation between the artist and Nolan biographer and poet Simon Mundy.
All welcome, price with admission

Also showing work in the main house are @copycollective_Tending to Nowhere

#sidneynolan #sidneynolantrust #therodd #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting

Medusa
25x35cm,
Oil on canvas,
2026

On show as Part of MacCarthy’s second institutional show with the @sidneynolantrust which opens tomorrow -

Another Step Towards Troy
pv 6-8pm

New canvases by Daniel MacCarthy alongside works on paper by Sidney Nolan in response to the Greek Myths.

followed on Saturday 28th at 2pm with a conversation between the artist and Nolan biographer and poet Simon Mundy.
All welcome, price with admission

Also showing work in the main house are @copycollective_Tending to Nowhere

#sidneynolan #sidneynolantrust #therodd #danielmaccarthy #contemporarypainting

I find it pretty hard to use this platform these days; it feels perverse somehow to promote my daubings when my feed is full of such horror and carnage. But in the spirit of Auden whose poem the musees de beaus arts was the starting point for this painting I will persevere. The poem is a famous example of ekphrasis (art inspired by other art), focusing on Old Master paintings—specifically those of Pieter Bruegel—that illustrate human suffering occurring alongside the ordinary, unconcerned events of daily life, and I suppose in that spirit one can argue that ordinary life and good things like art must continue in-spite or in defiance of the times.
This work will be showing in my upcoming exhibition with the @sidneynolantrust Another step towards Troy, opening this Friday.

dog walker with the fall of Icarus
Oil on canvas,
107x153cm
2026

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Musée des Beaux Arts
BY W. H. AUDEN
December 1938

I find it pretty hard to use this platform these days; it feels perverse somehow to promote my daubings when my feed is full of such horror and carnage. But in the spirit of Auden whose poem the musees de beaus arts was the starting point for this painting I will persevere. The poem is a famous example of ekphrasis (art inspired by other art), focusing on Old Master paintings—specifically those of Pieter Bruegel—that illustrate human suffering occurring alongside the ordinary, unconcerned events of daily life, and I suppose in that spirit one can argue that ordinary life and good things like art must continue in-spite or in defiance of the times.
This work will be showing in my upcoming exhibition with the @sidneynolantrust Another step towards Troy, opening this Friday.

dog walker with the fall of Icarus
Oil on canvas,
107x153cm
2026

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Musée des Beaux Arts
BY W. H. AUDEN
December 1938

I find it pretty hard to use this platform these days; it feels perverse somehow to promote my daubings when my feed is full of such horror and carnage. But in the spirit of Auden whose poem the musees de beaus arts was the starting point for this painting I will persevere. The poem is a famous example of ekphrasis (art inspired by other art), focusing on Old Master paintings—specifically those of Pieter Bruegel—that illustrate human suffering occurring alongside the ordinary, unconcerned events of daily life, and I suppose in that spirit one can argue that ordinary life and good things like art must continue in-spite or in defiance of the times.
This work will be showing in my upcoming exhibition with the @sidneynolantrust Another step towards Troy, opening this Friday.

dog walker with the fall of Icarus
Oil on canvas,
107x153cm
2026

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Musée des Beaux Arts
BY W. H. AUDEN
December 1938

I find it pretty hard to use this platform these days; it feels perverse somehow to promote my daubings when my feed is full of such horror and carnage. But in the spirit of Auden whose poem the musees de beaus arts was the starting point for this painting I will persevere. The poem is a famous example of ekphrasis (art inspired by other art), focusing on Old Master paintings—specifically those of Pieter Bruegel—that illustrate human suffering occurring alongside the ordinary, unconcerned events of daily life, and I suppose in that spirit one can argue that ordinary life and good things like art must continue in-spite or in defiance of the times.
This work will be showing in my upcoming exhibition with the @sidneynolantrust Another step towards Troy, opening this Friday.

dog walker with the fall of Icarus
Oil on canvas,
107x153cm
2026

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Musée des Beaux Arts
BY W. H. AUDEN
December 1938

I find it pretty hard to use this platform these days; it feels perverse somehow to promote my daubings when my feed is full of such horror and carnage. But in the spirit of Auden whose poem the musees de beaus arts was the starting point for this painting I will persevere. The poem is a famous example of ekphrasis (art inspired by other art), focusing on Old Master paintings—specifically those of Pieter Bruegel—that illustrate human suffering occurring alongside the ordinary, unconcerned events of daily life, and I suppose in that spirit one can argue that ordinary life and good things like art must continue in-spite or in defiance of the times.
This work will be showing in my upcoming exhibition with the @sidneynolantrust Another step towards Troy, opening this Friday.

dog walker with the fall of Icarus
Oil on canvas,
107x153cm
2026

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Musée des Beaux Arts
BY W. H. AUDEN
December 1938

Please join me this evening at JGM gallery Battersea for an exhibition walk through and Q&A with Virginia Rigney senior curator at Canberra Musuem of art and Anthony Mottershead artistic director of the Sidney Nolan Trust. 6.30-8.30pm

@virginia_rigney
@antonymottershead
@jgm_gallery
_____________

Strange Heart Beating
runs throughout Frieze
until the 24th October
Tuesday- Saturday 11-6
24 Howie Street, Battersea

________________
Image:
Narcissus as a young girl,
Oil on canvas, 2025
107x107cm
.
.
.
.
#frieze #friezeweek #contemporaryart
@friezeofficial #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting

Please join me this evening at JGM gallery Battersea for an exhibition walk through and Q&A with Virginia Rigney senior curator at Canberra Musuem of art and Anthony Mottershead artistic director of the Sidney Nolan Trust. 6.30-8.30pm

@virginia_rigney
@antonymottershead
@jgm_gallery
_____________

Strange Heart Beating
runs throughout Frieze
until the 24th October
Tuesday- Saturday 11-6
24 Howie Street, Battersea

________________
Image:
Narcissus as a young girl,
Oil on canvas, 2025
107x107cm
.
.
.
.
#frieze #friezeweek #contemporaryart
@friezeofficial #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting

Please join me this evening at JGM gallery Battersea for an exhibition walk through and Q&A with Virginia Rigney senior curator at Canberra Musuem of art and Anthony Mottershead artistic director of the Sidney Nolan Trust. 6.30-8.30pm

@virginia_rigney
@antonymottershead
@jgm_gallery
_____________

Strange Heart Beating
runs throughout Frieze
until the 24th October
Tuesday- Saturday 11-6
24 Howie Street, Battersea

________________
Image:
Narcissus as a young girl,
Oil on canvas, 2025
107x107cm
.
.
.
.
#frieze #friezeweek #contemporaryart
@friezeofficial #sidneynolan #contemporarypainting

Untitled (Paris)2025
Oil on canvas,
40x50cm
.
.
.
.
.
.
#contemporarypainting
#contemporaryart #paris
#parissuityourself @parissuityourself