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Jeff Martin - 23 Times - 2006

Jeff Martin – 23 Times – 2006

The Wall Series is the most personal of all of Jeff’s work.

Emerging out of a difficult period in his life, Jeff uses the imagery and innocence of the school yard to portray his journey of self-exploration and his liberation in finding purpose and place.

The exhibition featured at Kozminsky Galleries in Melbourne Australia, in 2006.

“23 Times”

Jeff Martin

Oil on board  2006

112 cm x 98 cm

Carmel Jenkin - Dejected - 2013

Carmel Jenkin – Dejected – 2013

‘Dejected’

Ink on canvas

‘When I work with ink on canvas my images become much more detailed. Tools of the trade to the left. I’m always more captivated by the side profiles and keeping a blackened face.’

Carmel Jenkin

2013

56 cm x 89 xm

More of Carmel’s work can be found on her Facebook Page.

Mount Ainslie

Mount Ainslie

‘Mount Ainslie’, Canberra

Artist unknown

Signature unreadable.

Blackwell - "Luteola Cannabinoides Cretica" 1730

Blackwell – “Luteola Cannabinoides Cretica” 1730

“Luteola Cannabinoides Cretica”

Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator.

She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married.

She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison. Her project was a book called ‘A Curious Herbal’.

She learned that physicians required a reference book which documented the medicinal qualities of plants and herbs. In order to develop the publication she examined and drew specimens of plants available in the Chelsea Physic Garden. Sir Hans Sloane provided financial support to publish ‘A Curious Herbal’.

Elizabeth Blackwell is notable for being one of the first botanical artists to personally etch and engrave her own designs. This saved the expense of hiring a professional engraver. In total, the enterprise took Blackwell six full years to complete and in the end she was able to release her husband from prison.

‘A Curious Herbal’ was published between 1737 and 1739. The book contained the first illustrations of many odd-looking, unknown plants from the New World.

64.5 cm x 51.5 cm

Draakestein - 'Talu-dama' - 1686

Draakestein – ‘Talu-dama’ – 1686

‘Talu-dama’

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hendrik Draakestein

The first complete flora from the east Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

The Sirens - Ryan Ponsford

The Sirens – Ryan Ponsford

The Sirens

Ryan Ponsford

Three pigment ink prints of Ravens on archival bamboo rag paper

2011

H 168cm W 75cm D 5.5cm

Crows

An 18th Century German Copper Engraved Map of Nouvelle Hollande (Australia) 1753

An 18th Century German Copper Engraved Map of Nouvelle Hollande (Australia) 1753

[MAP] Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen

Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen Bellin, Jacques Nicholas [Leipzig], 1753.

Copperplate engraving, original folds.

The scarce German version of Bellin’s map of Australia, Carte reduite des terres Australes. The projected eastern coastline joins the charted territories on Van Dieman’s Land and Carpentaria.

First published in Prevost’s L’Histoire Generale des Voyages in the same year, editions in German, Danish and Dutch editions soon followed. Not in Tooley (although cf. Tooley 156/157/157a for French, Dutch and Danish editions); Clancy 6.28.

1753

AA2064

205 x 275mm