Duyfken at the Swan Brewery landing

The Duyfken 1606, a replica was made of this small sailing ship in 1999 by the Fremantle Maritime Museum, on the 400th aniversary of the original it made a 9 month voyage 12000 km around Australia .

On my 64th birthday in 2004 my wife took me to the old Swan Brewery for lunch , and I took photo's of the Duyfken tied up to the landing stage, the city of Perth on the Swan river is in the back ground

Painting in acrylics & pen, 11 x 17 inch on gessoed MDF board

Carnevale Di Venezia

After selling my triptich of Venetian masks, I have done a much larger acrylic 14 x 21 inch framed its 22 x 29 inch, after painting in three masks, I found that the composition wasn't right, so I have included three small sketches to fill in , this is Carnevale Di Venezia, the carnival of venice

Fremantle fishing harbour boats at night

Painting in acrylic on Gessoed pdf board 21 x 40 inch in matted frame 22 x 29, painted from a photo in Flikr by Lee Swanson, with his kind permission.