A Painting + Sydney winter

When I lived in Killara, the steep roads and landscape would often remind me of Grace Cossington Smith's paintings of Turramurra (which is not in any case very far from Killara). I quite like GCS's city paintings, especially "The Lacquer Room", below. And her rare Bowral landscapes, all dusty grey and pinks from memory in contrast to her later brilliant yellows.



The winter I spent in Killara was fairly severe, in part because the suburb is quite green. This winter hasn't been as cold and the city itself seems more rushed than when I first arrived here. Nevertheless I love Sydney in the winter, with its blue evenings, cool winds whipping through arcades, soup takeaways, the bobbing of black clad figures on any given day in the city, fallen gingko leaves at the botanical gardens, the odd wet day and the crazy bastards who are always found swimming around Bondi & Bronte.