Tigerfish Gallery in Bell St, Torquay, is showing new paintings by Norval Watson over Easter.
The show continues for about six weeks. All welcome!
Right: “Bicycles, Byron Bay”, oil on canvas, 121 x 152 cm. Price: $12,000 AUD.
This is my new album of music, “Unwell”.
Thirteen songs about getting hurt and getting better.
Unwell: TheBrooklyn Mix, 47-minute monolithic pre-master MP3, streaming now on Soundcloud.
http://soundcloud.com/norv/unwell-1
Download available and comments welcome.
Zok
A derelict surfer gets in trouble with the Mafia
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My 16 minute, 16 millimetre film from 1980.
Nakatsuchi
This shows a farm-house in Nakatsuchi, Japan. The house belongs to the Yamada family, my brother Randal’s sponsors in Japan. We stayed there for a week about 20 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
In the Shadow of the Gods
“In the Shadow of the Gods”, watercolor and gouache on paper, 1995.
This painting depicts the artist and his dog in the foreground with Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Hazel looking down over his shoulder.
This is Art.. from Norv 2001 on Vimeo.
A nine minute rollercoaster ride through the great museums of Paris.
Avalon: After the Neutron Bomb
I painted this work for an Easter exhibition in Torquay one year.
There wasn’t quite enough time to finish the painting, so I left it as it was, with no surfers, no beach-goers, no grommets in the car-park, in fact no human beings at all.
This gives the painting an eery, ghostly quality, Read the rest of this entry »
Thredbo, 2005
Yes, I was a complete, utter moron…
In 2006 I was heavily into downhill racing on mountain bikes, stunt riding, and skimboarding in gnarly shorebreak. We had to wait for the right conditions to skim, but for the bikes we could take matters into our own hands.
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