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    Armidale NSW

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    Stewart Macdonald

    Stewart MacDonald

    I was born in Canada in 1939 and accidentally immigrated to Australia in 1970 when Customs stamped my passport “Permanent Resident” even though I had as yet not actually trod the wide brown land.

    My original intention had been to work for a while, buy a boat and sail back to British Columbia.

    But now I felt so welcome that I stayed, married an Italian beauty, taught English to those who spoke `strines and eventually, settled in Armidale, NSW.

    I have doodled and doddled a good deal throughout life, written a few short stories, one naïve novel and began painting ‘seriously’ some years ago.

    My Art

    I am a self-taught ‘artist’, for better or worse, and have learned how to create pictures in a way that works for me.

    I prefer painting people rather than landscape and my paintings usually have a narrative quality because I like to tell stories – abstract art baffles me in spite of beautiful things sometimes resultant – useful as background perhaps but what other purpose it serves is beyond my ken.

    Art, I believe, should first give you pleasure then something to think about.

    I frequently work on MDF board because I enjoy the composite nature of that material to which I apply paint in thin layers, building my pictures slowly and ensuring that the board itself remains a major element in the finished work.

    Awards:

    Second Prize: 2022 Summer Show – Audition – acrylic on board
    Second Prize: 2021 Summer Show – Par, Of Course – acrylic on board
    Third Prize: 2020 Summer Show – Ring Home Soon – acrylic on board


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    Armidale Art Gallery