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A couple of months ago I was given a book that has inspired a greater interest for me in the many ruins and old buildings of the Outback.<\/p>\n

It’s a collection of drawings, water colour and oil paintings of Outback homesteads, woodsheds and stockyards by South Australian artist Bruce Swann.<\/p>\n

It was given to me by his son Phil and it turned out to be a better gift than he could have imagined.<\/p>\n

His father was a stock auctioneer who travelled much of Outback Australia with his work. His greatest talent though, was drawing and painting the buildings and structures he saw in his travels. A lot of them have now become disused or ruins, others modernised or pulled down so it’s a good record of a changing world.

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From time to time I come across the same buildings Bruce Swann drew decades ago and there’s now a link there for me to work with, for he’s caught the peace and beauty that is often associated with these old buildings or the sense of adversity in what is a hard and arid landscape.<\/p>\n

There are at least four books that have been published of Swann’s work and some of his original drawings and painting are among some major collections here and overseas.<\/p>\n

From the book “Swann’s Australia” I’ve taken these two water colours of the Nilpena Woolshed along with two of my own photographs.

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