Watercolours of Melbourne

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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
watercolour, charcoal and graphite on paper, full sheet
collection B & L McCann
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Container Terminal, Port Melborne
watercolour, double full sheet
private collection

Across from St Kilda Pier
watercolour on Saunders Waterford , full sheet
private collection
close-up

Flinders Street Station at Night, Melbourne
watercolour double full sheet
private collection
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Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
watercolour full sheet (Montval paper)
private collection
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Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
(with colour interpolation)
watercolour full sheet (Montval paper)
private collection

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Melbourne has been one of my favourite urban subjects, especially in the period 1994-1997 and within the medium of watercolour. The cosmopolitan feel of the city streets, the wet roads, the trams, the grand old Flinders Street Station, Young and Jacksons, the Yarra, the port with its cranes and container ships ... all these have left an indelible impression on me and a desire to return again and again to this magnificent Australian city of culture and personality. Not far to the southwest, around the bay, is Geelong, and beyond that the Great Ocean Road hugs the dramatic Victorian Coast on its way towards Adelaide. My first trip along the Great Ocean Road inspired many seascapes thereafter.