This is the webpage of Dave Poulgrain
Painter,
Artist,
and Nurseryman.
I am primarily, a professional tradesman who has been involved with
all types of domestic, commercial and industrial painting in and around
Kooralbyn since 1986. Moving
here from Brisbane, where
I worked mostly for interior designers and architects, and was selected
to repaint many of Brisbane's inner city historic houses. From early
1986, I began contract work painting many local houses and parts of
the Kooralbyn International School as it was being built, and as a testament,
most of this paintwork still endures today.
When
painting
houses, businesses or units, I have always steadfastly performed all
painting-related tasks myself, to maintain a high standard of worksmanship, rather than using unqualified
labour.
Ever
since beginning as a tradesman in 1970, I have always specialised in
painted effects, including staining, marbling, french washes and factory-packaged
specialty coatings, as well as wallpapering. Having a strong 'sixth
sense' with colour and harmony, some of my colour schemes have been
displayed on Brisbane television, especially the blue 'Maroon Room'
and the deep green 'Harper Room' at Lilydale Host-farm, Barney View.
Colour schemeing is my favourite (free) service; matching a client to
a colour theme, whether it is a bold statement, or an muted, elegant
look that is required.
My
contact details:
Phone:
(07) 55446466 a/hrs.
Address:
139-153 Merton Close, Kooralbyn
Email:
Dave the nurseryman
Together
with my wife Shirley, we run and operate a mail-order nursery that grows
and sends plants to most parts of Australia, with exports to many parts
of the world also. We specialise in growing one particular type of succulent;
the Echeveria from Mexico originally, and I have written and published
a grower's manual on this ( previously ) slow to reproduce plant.
We are not open to the public, and visits are by appointment only. To
contact us, Ph. (07) 55446466.
For
a better idea of what these spectacular drought tolerant plants look
like, visit our website: www.echeverias.com
Ever
since I was a youngster, I have won many art prizes, and now have artworks
in collections in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, I have
always taken great pleasure in painting in the fine arts area.
Now, as a flow-on of a detailed knowledge of my trade, I have now gone
into creating 'Authentic Fakes', where, using a 26 stage process, I
re-create frescos many thousands of years old on a solid base material.
The originals, were quite often plundered by being hacked off ancient
walls, then sold to museums and art collectors, and it is these fragments
of frescos that I reproduce and then age artificially.
Some examples:
This example of my artwork, is deliberately painted in the Roman 1st
century "architectural style" as found in Pompeii, which was
buried after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. The style showed a development
towards true perspective, but is somewhere between a 'flat' two-dimensional,
and modern three-dimensional perspective. This original work, which
is not a copy from any original, took a while to master, as it goes
against all training in modern perspective principles, and takes a concerted
effort not to give it too much 3-D for the period it comes from.
Another, this time, a 3500 year old fresco copy:
This is 'Minoan Blue Ladies', a portion of a very old fresco from the Mediterraean island of Knossos. The larger original, is a rather two-dimensional representation of unknown ladies from the Palace, and while individual faces are shown, there is no subtle distinctions like differing skin colours. No great artistic refinement was made to record correct proportion of hands to face, nor to paint from an obtuse angle, and instead, the body is depicted front-on, while the heads are in profile.
By 500 years later, the Egyptians had added various skin tones to their depictions of the afterlife, as shown in this painting from a recently-discovered family tomb that survived intact: Still two-dimensional, but developing.
As well as selling these works, I also have taken on commissions, where a particular scene is wanted by a client.
