Sunny Day from the Ovals at Flinders University. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, black biro and watercolour pencils on cartridge paper.
Main theme: Interesting arrangements of form in the landscape.
Date produced: 1992 - 1998.

South Park Lands, Adelaide: 29th May 2025

The weather is absolutely fabulous today!

It is about 11:30 am. I have just finished playing some enjoyable tennis with friends near the city, and I am waiting to get a bus into the city, to do some shopping. I feel charged up and inspired.

There is beautiful clear warm sunshine streaming over everything. It is quite calm, with just an occasional cool zephyr coming in from the southeast. The temperature would be about 21 degrees. Everywhere I look, the colours look clear and bright. Everything looks clear and sharp in the bright sunshine. The birds are making lovely sounds all around. All of the sounds are clear.

The Plane trees that line the roads are in the full sunshine and have leaves that are full of bright yellows and oranges, as well as ‘old golds’ and some areas of foliage that are still yellow-green. Many of the leaves are in the process of turning to classic Autumn colours. The hills in the distance are bluey-green in hue, but still very clear. The sky is largely made up from clear cobalt blues, especially next to the yellows and oranges of the leaves of the Plane trees in the full sunshine. All of the whites in the scenes all around are bright and clear.

I wanted to write something about the day today. I wondered whether a painting could capture the type of day it was today. I suspect that it might be able to, but I haven’t seen many paintings that capture the way that today feels, and I suspect that it would take a lot of thinking about, as well as a lot of careful work. I thought that writing would be a much more efficient way of expressing the type of day it feels today.

The tennis went well, and I certainly enjoyed the sunshine while playing. It was much cooler when I first arrived at the tennis courts. I also remember, while taking a break from tennis, hearing and seeing a couple of very large flocks of Sulphur-Crested White Cockatoos excitedly flying about in the Park Lands behind the tennis courts. It is fantastic experiencing such spectacles and hearing the sounds from all of those birds, living free!

The weather over the last couple of days has been excellent. There is just something very special about today! I hope the type of day comes across to you.

Inside the Foyer of the Adelaide Railway Station. 21 cm x 29.5 cm, blue biro on grey paper.
Main theme: Wide-angle view of an interior.
Date produced: 1986 - 1987.