At Eighty Years...

Australian Artist Richard Cornish Celebrates his Artistic Life in thirty of his Most Important art works from 1955-to 2o22.

The complete Collection of his Creative Oeuvre images comes to over one thousand executed from 1955-2022.

Richard Cornish. Four art works in Art Gallery of NSW. For Travelling Art Scholarship.1968.

Dream of a Peace, pyroxylin on hardboard,6ft x 4 ft,9(black and white photo)1968

‘The Struggle for Peace’ 8ft x 6 ft, pyroxylin on hardboard, 1968

‘Vietnam. War We are Napalmed from the Sky’ pyroxylin on hardboard, 4ft x 3 6in,1967.

‘Mother Playing with Child’   pyroxylin in hardboard, 4ft x 3 ft, 1968.

 ‘Vietnamese Guernica’ Panel for an Idea for a vast Mural, Oil Paint on Canvas on Hardboard, 3ft 6-inch x 16-inch, National War Museum, Canberra.1966-7?

‘People will not Hear the Truth. Still the Vietnam War Goes on’ 3 ft x 16-inch, Oil Paint on Hard board,1966.

The Birth of Venus with Surfboards’ oil on Hard Board, 11ft x 4ft, Quidditch  Daw Park, SA,1977.

‘Anna Reading in a Bean Bag’ Oil on Canvas 5ft 5-inch x 3 ft 8 inch, 1979?

‘The Lovers Tear’’’3ft x 2ft, charcoal on paper,1975

‘Light Row Boat,’ Watercolour on watercolour paper,18 inch x 16 inches, 1974.

‘Homage to a Twelve-Year Marriage’ Quartic of four panels, Oil on Canvas on hardboard, 12ft x 8ft, 1982,

‘Dance of the Seasons’ Oil on Canvas, Commissioned artwork for Lake Macquarie Hotel, Morisset, NSW, Main Bar, 8ft x 3ft. 1984

‘Dream of Chinese Woman Swimming Underwater with Curious Pelicans’ Mixed media, collage, watercolour on special backing Board, 4ft x 4 ft, 1998.

‘Sage Sleeping by a Pond ‘Brush Drawing with Mixed Media, 18-inch x 21 inch,2003

Unexpected Visitation. Sage with Kuan Yin the Chinese Goddess of Mercy and the Tree of Life Water colour and Mixed Media on paper,40cm x 42 cm, 2008.

Scholar/Sage Surprised by Chinese Goddess of Compassion and Love in Front of the Tree of Life, Oil on canvas,19 inches x 19 inches,2022.

‘Chinese Artist and Model’ Brush Drawing and Mixed Media,18inch x 21 inches,2004

‘Evocations of Spirit Mountain’ 29 cm x 42 cm, Brush Drawing, Watercolour and Mixed Media on Paper ,2009.

‘Rural Chinese Woman Dying her Hair Red  on the Floor ‘29cm x42 cm, Watercolour and Mixed Media on backing board, 2008

‘The Children’s Swimming Lesson’ Oil on Canvas, 37 cm x 37 cm,2010

‘Tree of Life with Strange Mist’ and Owl of Medusa on Branch ‘Oil on Canvas ,100 cm x 100 cm 2021

Sage and Pregnant Woman in Shangrila, Oil on Canvas,100cm x 100 cm,2020

‘Purple Iris, Rebirth, Oil on Canvas,100cm x 100 cm,2020.

‘Asian Rural Woman on Matt, Washing and Dyeing Her Hair Scarlet’ 100 cm x 100 cm Oil on Canvas,2020

Goddess Kali Dance of Death During Covid Virus Outbreak,’100 cm x 100 cm, Mixed Media. Oil on Canvas 2022.

‘Cheng Du Woman Dreaming’ Triptych Oil on canvas 160 cm x 9ocm,2019

‘Self Portrait with Model and Kuixing/Wen Chung, Chinese God of Literature and Examinations’, Oil on Canvas, 2020 cm x 1700 cm,1996/97

‘The Coming Global Financial, Ecological and political’ Tsunami ‘Run Run ,Taozou, Taozou, Flee Flee!’ Mixed Media and Gold on with Watercolour Paper, 3ft x 2ft 6-inch two thousand

‘Sleeping Sage and Tree of Life’ Brush drawing and mixed media, A4,1985-95

‘Yellow Irises. God Rain’. Oil on canvas,1oo cm x 1oo com,2023

‘Death Shall have no Dominion, Exhumed grave of Ancient Lovers 3,100 BC’ Oil on Canvas,100 cm x 100 cm.2023.