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The various paintings take the viewer through a journey, around the bohemian cafe society of Bondi Beach, Australia. Depictions of pavement and restaurant activity with many cafes that cater for a variety of local and tourist tastes.

'Bondi Beach - My Backyard' Bondi Beach is a comely place on the worst of days.
Even with grey, cloudy skies or gusty rain, the beach still looks sexy.
The sandy beach-line curves around like the contours of a woman in a foetal position, making 'spoons' up against the Pavilion, Campbell Parade and the 'Wedding Cake Hotel'.

Campbell Parade is a 2-kilometre stretch of curious cafes and restaurants with names that sound like the character list of a Fellini movie i.e. Mojo, Calibre, Trio, Lamrock, Squeeze, Gabby, Il Puntino, Liberty, Gusto, Ravesi's... etc. They all ooze an attitude, which epitomises the bohemian cafe society that either lives or hangs-out down there.

A bastion for the 'plebs & celebs' that come to be part of (or voyeurs to) the groups of model-like girls and club-cool guys that pose in and outside the niches and alcoves of the shop fronts. From seven in the morning the 'cabaret' performs in rotating shifts. Surfers in wet-suits carrying boards to and from the beach,'cafe tribes' occupying tables on the pavement and inside crowded cafes holding loud conversations with mobile phones, while greeting each other dramatically.

The deluge of constant chatter is broken up by the intermittent hissing of an espresso machine, mulching of a juicer or sting of a personalised ring-tone, just above the new age music that pulsates from the cafe sound system. All the way down the strip, outside-tables twitch, while watching tanned semi-clad 'natives' arouse the 'cool' and crusading.

Welcome to my backyard...