The Traveller (after the painting by Jeffrey Smart) I there is nothing surreal in his work except the modern urban world still, impassive, hyper-real where the only true nature is man’s the lonely city vista, the concrete streetscape as disturbing as de Chirico but here is the beauty of buses on the left, bold-colour fields green on red on yellow on buff black tyres on grey tarmac the apartment complex white and beige an endless repeating pattern of balconies caught between a light blue sky and pink signage II the lines are clean and sharp and…
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