Early Exhibition Series 'The Lovers'
One of the first abstract artworks I ever created. Inspired by Matisse and Brett Whitely (his bathroom series). I exhibited this at my first solo exhibition and i managed to sell it!
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Comment by Margo Garrison on July 3, 2011 at 7:20am -
Wow, how great is that, thank you!
So impressive!
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Comment by Greef on July 3, 2011 at 6:29am -
Your name is written like this :
It is pronounced “MAAGOO”. (Consonants are pronounced more or less the same way as in English. "A" sounds like a in father, but shorter. "O" sounds like o in old. Double vowels like “AA” are held for twice the duration of single vowels.)
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Comment by Margo Garrison on July 3, 2011 at 5:39am
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OMG, that should be in your bio in every site you're involved in! What an inspiring story. It just goes to show it's never too late to change your mind. So much talent in so many fields and this is the one that stuck, just a great, great story...but you know now I want to know what my name is in Japanese...I think I'm turning Japanese, btw, I really think so...OH dear, that song will be on my mind for the rest of the day now...
P.s. I knew that pork roast you posted on Youtube wasn't the work of just "a guy that likes to cook."!
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Comment by Greef on July 3, 2011 at 5:20am
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Yeah i am a qualified chef by trade, completed a 4 year apprenticeship and then worked for 2 years as a qualified chef...hated it and so became a restaurant supervisor of a Marriott hotel...blah blah blah went to university studied to become a Japanese language teacher but dropped out after 1st year, moved to London, got a job in a 4 star deluxe hotel as a reservation agent/Japanese interpreter, did that for 2 years and moved home to Australia and then got a job in a bank as a teller, worked up to an agricultural business banker, did that for 3 years, quit that and went to uni to study art, did that for a year and dropped out and moved to Norway...breath the end LOL I was 31 when i began learning about art!
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Comment by Margo Garrison on July 3, 2011 at 5:11am
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I love the Brett Whitely in this!!! And that's how I feel Lea...god I've got miles and miles to go, I haven't even begun! I'm blown away by this and not in the least surprised it sold. This must have been brewing inside you for a long time. I just wonder how you expressed all this artistic talent before your visual artwork began. I know you took a chef course or you were a chef??? It seems impossible that you haven't always been involved in visual art in some way!
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Comment by Sarah Pauline on July 2, 2011 at 8:26am -
I think it is really beautiful Gary. The colors are gorgeous.
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