JANINE GOOD

Melancholy Beach

This series of works are dedicated to a friend – Rod Taylor who passed from this life in 2009, taken by cancer.

Rod spent his final years at a remote sheltered bay on the south-eastern coast of NSW, a place he found solace and where his ashes were cast into the wind and ocean.

This place is the subject of these paintings and drawings.

There is a sense of melancholy in these works but I think the worn and resilient landscape shows there is both decay and renewal so it is also a celebration of life.

So the sad event of losing a friend inspired a series of works I call ‘Melancholy Beach’, a series about love and loss.

Rod was an artist/musician who had a wicked sense of humour so I think he would appreciate what his beach memorial has inspired … I hope so.