Tony Sevil

Samples of work from the studio exhibition I had in my home near Uralla nsw

A Heron

Flies low over my house

Limbs tucked under

Wings beating ever so slowly and rhythmically

Neck outstretched

Focused on my dam

As if tired and relieved

On the last leg of a long journey

It spreads its wings wide

Glides gently in a smooth arc

Ripples onto the dam’s glasslike surface

Settles

And rests

© Tony Sevil 2014

Said the hen to the rooster- “Catch me if you can you big oaf”

A musician friend gave me half an old piano. He made an interesting table out of the other half.

I made these collages using stripped down elements from the hammer mechanism of the piano

Wooden shapes were originally covered with felt and the leather below

90mm x 205mm

 Strips of suede leather suggest a landscape

160mm x 210mm

Wooden elements covered with glue, heated with heat gun, also suggests an abstract landscape or detail from a landscape

73mm x 160mm

190mm x 290mm

An aerial view form a press helicopter of an agricultural  field day where Dr Elmo Maggott (in brown hat) is speaking on a major breakthrough in blow fly sterilisation research

“Look. heat is manageable. One of the things we do is spread our wings which helps you lose heat. You can open your beak and do some panting or gasping.  It also helps you keep cool.Something to do with the lungs. Never looked into it.  Some like to squat close to the ground. Scratch a bit of a hole to get the cooler soil. Its all pretty simple really. And then…well you’ve just got to soldier on. There are eggs to lay!”

                   Knowing my love of found objects a friend returned from a  North Queensland holiday with two gifts – a sea shell and a layer of shell from a dead turtle. I decided to put the two together

A little humour. Well…they made me chuckle  making them