The Autumn Spring Exhibition - Wild Swan Art Group from Western Australia

Easter at Nagasaki Citys Catholic Catherderal's 

Ground Zero A Bomb Memorial 

Cherry Blosooms

pastel pencil charcoal on F4 pastel Paper

デイヴィッドソン仮説によれば、芸術家は現実に直接働きかけることができない。これは速度の不足や「遅れ」によるものではなく、構造的な必然である。認識には距離が必要であり、ずれがなければ、何ものも「何か」として現れることはない。

この必然的な間隔こそが、アペイロン（D）である。

The Davidson Hypothesis states that artists cannot act on reality directly. This is not due to a lack of speed or a "lag"—it is a structural necessity. Recognition requires distance. Without displacement, nothing can appear as "something."

This necessary space is the Aperion (D).

The Davidson Hypothesis states that artists cannot act on reality directly. This is not due to a lack of speed or a "lag"—it is a structural necessity. Recognition requires distance. Without displacement, nothing can appear as "something."

Chelle Bourne 

After the Rain - Star Swamp

Digital Image 

Diokno Pasilin

Port Barton

Oil on canvas

240 cm x 180 cm 

2025 

Micheal Doherty  - Northwest 

Oil on canvas 

50 cm x 50 cm 

 Sally Douglas 

Spring, Devon, UK

38cm h x 28cm w

  Watercolour on paper

John Cullinane 

Time

Oil on canvas

Professor Diana Davis

Australian National University

Necklace

Melissa Nolan McDougall 

Untitiled drawing 

A4

Ross Sanders 

Narcissus #1

Found Objects

Spring/ Autumn Exhibition 2026

The Japanese Spring is here and the plum blossoms are nearly in full bloom 

as the sunsets on the cold winter.

Poem

Sugawara no Michizane (845–903) 

東風吹かば
にほひおこせよ
梅の花
主なしとて
春な忘れそ

When the east wind blows

Send me your fragrance,

O plum blossoms!

Although your master is gone,

Do not forget the spring.

Legend states that as Michizane left his home in Kyoto, he addressed this poem to the plum tree in his garden. The poem reflects his grief at leaving his beloved trees and his hope that they would bloom despite his absence.

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Professor Diana Davis - Necklace

Australian National University 

 

Ross Sanders - RMIT Sculpture Major - Pomegranate -

Farm utensils and decaying friuit - 10 cm x 8 cm

Ross Sanders - RMIT Sculpture Major - Roma Gaea Rising

Found Objects 10 cm x 8 cm

lived and worked in the remote mining areas of Western Australia

then retruned to Victoria

Diokno Pasilan - Suitcase Islands 

The Drawing Room Contemporary Art 

Manila

link https://drawingroomgallery.com/exhibitions/make-up/ 

Chelle Bourne Star Swamp 

Digital Image

Sally Douglas -  Magnolias, Dartington Hall, UK

Medium:  Watercolour on paper

Size:  26cm w x 36cm h

John Cullinane - The Calling 2012

Oil on linen, 38 cm x 51 cm

Peter Davidson

The Japanese spring flowers by the side of the road

Oil wax acrylic on wooden panel

21cm h x 18 cm w

This painting quietly resists instant recognition, asking the viewer to slow down and move through its surface rather than take it in at a glance. The thick, clustered marks of red, white, and violet feel less like clear descriptions of flowers and more like the trace of having looked at them over time. Set against the steady horizontal bands, the vertical forms carry a restrained, rhythmic energy, as if perception has been filtered and condensed into paint. The result is not just a fleeting roadside scene, but a small, self-contained object that holds the viewer in the time it took the artist to arrive at the image.

 

End of summer and winter exhibition 2026

 

Winter Snow over Awaji Island

Please enjoy this show on what has been a very cold winter in japan and a reasonable summer in Australia 

Peter Davidson - Akashi Municipal Planetarium

Pencil, pastel on coloured pastel paper

Sally Douglas - Scarlet Flower

  Watercolour & Ink

  36 cm h x 54 cm w

Melissa Nolan McDougall 

Doves

A4. Graphite on paper

Diokno Pasilan is currently in Manila doing wonderful things there in art, listen to the sbs Interview here https://www.sbs.com.au/.../suitcase-islands.../gph10nb12

John Cullinane

Panthestic Landscape 

Oil on Linen

Professor Diana Davis 

ANU

 

Necklace

Every necklace is made differently from assorted beads

 and semi precious stones 

Chelle Bourne 

Early Morning Shadows at Star Swamp. Mixed media 

400ml across x 26ml .

New Year 2026 Show

 Happy New Year 

to all our supporters and please enjoy this next exhibition  in the year of the 

Horse

Peter Davidson Study of horse China 7th or 8th century Met Museum

pencil whiteout ink wash on paper FO

Melissa Nolan McDougall

Graphite on paper

A5

Sally Douglas

  Autumn

  14 cm wide x 15cm high

  Watercolour, Gouache and Colour Pencil

Diokno Pasilan

Local ID 50x50cm Oil on canvas 2025

John Cullinane

"Sisters"

Oil on linen

38 cm h x 31 cm w

Professor Diana Davis

Necklace

Assorted glass beads with pendent

Chelle Bourne

Sunset Indian Ocean

Digital Image

Untitled (Aging Mushrooms) II
Medium: Oil, wax, and acrylic on wooden board

"I choose to paint aging mushrooms—subjects that contain a universe of painterly imagination within their decline. They represent a physical manifestation of the 'Davidsonian Delay': a timeless space where the artist remains free from the tyrannies of periodic history.

In this state of organic suspension, the act of painting becomes a dialogue between the physics of the brush and the memory of the form. As the mushroom yields, the brush captures the interaction of viscosity and pressure, leaving behind 'spatial paint traces' on the wooden board. These marks serve as a lived equation—a permanent record of perception and response.

Delay is the artist."

Peter Davidson

Merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas

to 

All

 

I hope you all head home to family and friends safely 

for

 happy festive times 

thank you for your ongoing support it is appreciated