‘A great tree on a riverbank’, W.F. Garden, pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, on paper, 1892claude monet waterlilies 1907Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 – 1931) Le lac Keitele, 1905Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish painter) 1865-1931 Lake Landscape 1915
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
Marie Paddling to Eric by Legh Kilpin (British, 1853-1919)John Singer Sargent 1909‘Under London Bridge.’ (1920) Dora MeesonPeder Mork Monsted (Danish, 1859 – 1941) A Summer Day in Hammeren, 1918Julia Beck (Sweedish painter) 1853-1935 Water lilies, ca. 1887The Dreamtime, Australian Aboriginal Myths , Illustrated with paintings by Ainslie Robertsclassic from H. C. Holling is Seabird an ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown, youngest hand on an oldtime whaling vessel‘The Bathers.’ (1946) Sam Black‘The Marble Steps,’ (c1899) Frits ThaulowMaurice Denis’ picture of Port de Brest. 1932Frits Thaulow (1847 – 1906) Riverside, view of Abbeville 1894Fritz Thaulow 1847 – 1906 Landscape at Elv 1886Forest Pool John Fabian Carlson (Swedish American,1874-1945)Railroad September 1945Boats at rest, at Petit-Gennevilliers Claude Monet 1872Nursery Friends From France by Maud and Miska Petersham. 1927In Limbo deb jj leeAuguste Herbin (1882-1960)August Renior f 25 feb Limges Frankrike død 3 des 1919 Cagnes-sur Mer FrankrikeOctober Mists, Veere, Holland, 1906, Theo van Rysselberghe, (1862-1926)Country Gentleman Magazine August 1952Tom Lovell, Man Being Thrown Overboard, n.d., illustration for True Magazine‘Der Blaue Weiher (The Blue Pond)’, by Hugo Henneberg, linoleum cut on four plates on Japanese paper, 1904.Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Sailing Boats In Drawn Water 1907. The linework reminds me of the illustrations of Charles Keeping. Pool Steps and Egon Schiele merged using Deep Dream GeneratorEero Järnefelt (Finnish, 1863 – 1937) Pond Water Crowfoot, 1895Frenchman’s Secret by Monica EdwardsDame Laura Knight (1877 – 1970) Lamorna Cove, 1917 – waterTowards Zero by Agatha Christie illustration by Tom AdamsJessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) sand and seaIllustration from The Living Forest (1925), by the Canadian painter Arthur HemingPonyo, Hayao MiyazakiFarmer’s Wife Magazine July 1938 cover art by Corinne MalvernThe Spirit by Will EisnerAlarming Tales #3 January 1958Kureha Rokuro The Gods Of Japan 1943Three worlds, 1955 Maurits Cornelis Escher; 1898-1972Clam Broth W. H. Walker (British graphic designer, active late 19th-early 20th century) 1899Starnberger-See Ludwig Hohlwein (German graphic designer, 1874-1949) 1910Looking Glass River Jessie Willcox Smith 1905Anton Otto Fischer (1882 – 1962) 1932 illustration for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules VerneMonet ‘Shipping by Moonlight,’ 1864
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
