Still life...

Might have been my first ever oil painting. I can't remember. I was drunk then!

By Paul D Robertson

Oils, 90 x 65 cms.

No idea where this may be.

I started doing TAFE because after more than 2 years I had not passed more than 4 subjects at university (for those not from Australia, it’s a kind of low level public college. Though the chances of learning something USEFUL sure as hell seem to me to hbe higher than going to university and doing an ART DEGREE. Ok… I will amend that to “arts” degree. Most of the time.)
And I had also of course been fired from so, so SO many jobs. I started painting, you see, as an excuse not to write.

So that I could be doing something, anything, anything at all, whilst I starved and drank and raved and died.
I was somewhat surprised to find out how well people reacted to what I did. I hadn’t even done art in years 11 and 12.
This is one of the only still life thingies that I ever painted. I am more interested in people… like Plato said: “To mankind mankind is holy.” I still don’t really know what the clay pot with the stopper in it is supposed to be for. Some kind of honey-based sauce, thick and sweet?