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Rex WOODMORE
	Email:	woodmore@westnet.com.au
	First Name:	Rex
	Last Name:	WOODMORE
	Organisation:	Paintings in the colours of Australia.
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	Web:	http://www.ArtWanted.com/Rex.Woodmore
	Address:	Gosnells WA 6110
	Artforms:	Visual Arts, Poetry & Writing
	BIO - Rex WOODMORE Paintings in the colours of Australia. I am a self taught artist, usually specialising in glossed acrylic paintings on canvas in the colours of Australia. I draw my inspiration for poetry & art from the wonders of God’s creation. At the age of eight, before arriving in Western Australia in1954, I had experienced at least one birthday in five different countries - England, Egypt, Cyprus, Mauritius and East Africa. The natural beauty of these countries is indelibly etched on my memory, but from the moment I stepped foot on Australian soil, on a blisteringly hot day in December, I knew that this was to be my earthly home. At first my parents worked with Aboriginal Children at a farm school where the boys delighted in showing this freckled face ‘New Australian’ the wonders of the bush. In the river they dived, swam, canoed, speared the introduced carp and showed me duck nests in seasonally flooded grass lands. They introduced me to my first ‘Bush Tucker’ (native food) the edible gum that exuded from one of the Wattle trees and ‘boys being boys’ we feasted on the fruit ‘borrowed’ from the orchard on the opposite bank of the river. Later Dad worked at the Serpentine dam & we lived on our own orchard in the midst of the Jarrah forest. It was here my love of the bush, interest in minerals, fauna and flora really developed. It was also here, while looking at billions of stars in the clear night sky that Creation itself ‘spoke’ to me. I became aware of the invisible power that holds all things together, but it took 40 years of my ‘Wandering in the wildernesses’ for me to fathom the depths and come to a point of a personal relationship with this awesome power. My play mates were two Dalmatian dogs. I spent a lot of time with them exploring the bush & when not catching scorpions & centipedes, I would sometimes sketch wild orchids - Spider, Donkey, Enamel and bird orchids that seem so scarce in the forest nowadays The scorpions lived under slabs of conglomerated gravel, when a gravel pebble was broken open it revealed a white crystalline powder. No one could tell me what it was. Today I know that the gravel (Pisolitic Laterite) is bauxite & the powder is pure alumina. Several years later, that same section of bush was to become Alcoa Australia’s first Western Australian alumina mine. Coincidentally, among many occupations until my retirement, I worked in environmental management, that included native seed collection and the supply of Jarrah Forest provenance seeds to Alcoa, for the re-vegetation of their mine sites. I have also been involved myself, in mineral exploration with some success for lead, silver and copper and also sapphire and ruby prospecting. I have travelled extensively in Western Australia - North to the Kimberley, South to Pemberton & East to the Goldfields. I’ve climbed the tallest hill (Bluff Knoll) and in the sea I’ve explored coral reefs (Ningaloo) & ship wrecks,one of which (The Gilt Dragon) contained bronze cannon & silver coins) yet I still can’t get enough of the excitement, beauty and the colours of Australia. Try as I may in prose or paint, I doubt I can express my love of this land, better than the late Dorothea MacKellar did when she wrote in her now famous Australian poem: ‘My Country’ I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of drought and flooding rains, I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me. Acknowledgement of copyright: By arrangement with the licensor,The Estate of Dorothea Mackellar c/- Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd.

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