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I gave this talk to the students at Warrnambool TAFE in September 2006. Warrnambool is a small town, once a whaling community, roughly two hundred and fifty kilometres west of Melbourne.

This slide shows two examples of my paintings for each of the last thirty years. It will be a little confusing at this stage, but you may get a sense of what I'm going to present to you and I'll return to this image later on in the presentation.

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