20-26 February 2019
◆ COLOURFUL LIFE: Greg Miles with some of his work at his Wangaratta home. PHOTOS: KYLIE WILSON
By KYLIE WILSON
Watercolour memories
HIS life and career have taken him all across Australia, but the place Greg Miles feels most at home is in his Wangaratta home, creating rich rural landscapes armed with just imagination, ink and watercolour paints. Now, as he approaches his 80th birthday, he is looking back on a life well lived and wants to showcase the fruits of his creative endeavours. “It all comes from the back of my head,” Greg – who grew up in the Mallee and Wimmera - said of his work, adding that his paintings reflect his “love of the Australian landscape, and the way the Aussie character has cluttered it with trucks and tractors, sheds, windmills and tankstands”. “It makes the bush and the country quite unique,” he said. “I’ve spent my life enjoying the outdoors and the bush. “I just paint what I love. “I’ve got lots of ideas in my head.” A self-taught painter, Greg said he has been painting in earnest for about a decade, but he was first influenced in his artistic endeavours by seeing the works of the sons of Albert Namatjira while working as a teacher with Indigenous children in the Northern Territory in the 1960s. He added that he was most influenced by their blending of colours, and followed their work with great interest.
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WINE TALK
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with Amy Brown
with ANITA
with CHRIS
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