The Painted Musician: Sydney to Dunedin, Hamburg to Maribor is the companion book to The Painted Orchestra .
This book tells the story about how the artist began painting musicians, became hooked and started traveling the world to draw world class musicians while they played.
The trips sometimes lead to adventures, like being on a train full of refugees escaping across closed borders, but mostly the stories tell of the excitement of the concert hall and the rigors of painting live subjects all day.
When exhaustion threatened, the artist migrated to cafes and painted the scenery from there. The book included many sketches of Maribor in Slovenia, painted between rehearsals during the annual Maribor Music Festival.
The Painted Musician can be bought through your bookseller or online from Amazon:
The sketches and paintings are being sold to support upcoming musicians
The paintings and sketches in this book are available for purchase and all funds go to the education initiatives of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. They have various programs including one which supports musical education for some of the most disadvantaged primary school students in Sydney. The program is having the most marvelous success. Get in touch with the artist through our contact page.
Most of the sketches are on 24 x 32cm (9.45 x 12.59″) 200g/m2 paper. Others are 30×40 cm, 20 x 29cm or 15 x 21 cm. Please contact us to inquire.
The paintings and larger portraits also vary in size. Watercolour portraits are on full sized (76 x 56 cm) Arches rag paper. The sizes of the Acrylic/Oil paintings are given in the captions to each painting.