Peter Barnes Art | Public figure
Peter Barnes Art
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25.01.2022 The story behind a painting I did last year of little Smoky.
24.01.2022 So far... this post has reached over 2.25 million people... incredible story of a very brave war horse.
23.01.2022 I am putting a video of ‘Can You Hear Australia’s Heroes Marching?’ in the video section of this Facebook Page. I recorded the song in March 2001. One interes...ting thing about the song is the global aspect of the internet allowed many people from other countries to hear the song. For instance, some years ago a publishing house in Norway asked for the song. The Norwegian publishing house Aschehoug is about to publish a new series of English schoolbooks for 8-10th grade in the Norwegian market. In this new series, called Key English, we want to make use of the song Can You Hear Australia’s Heroes Marching. The song has been used for commemorative purposes across Australia by schools, churches, choirs, bands, councils, retirement homes, military services, RSL branches and ANZAC tributes at NRL & AFL matches. Radio stations throughout Australia have broadcast the song leading up to ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day. The song has also been requested to be played at funerals (for veterans). Lest We Forget.
21.01.2022 In the process of doing a Light Horse drawing.
21.01.2022 Will have to do a painting of a war horse one day. Septimus Power drew from his experience on the Western Front as an official war artist from September to December 1917 to create ‘Bringing Up The Guns’. He has shown the 1st Australian Imperial Force 101st Australian Battery taking part in the Third Battle of Ypres in Passchendaele, Belgium in October 1917.... There is a team of six horses, a rider on one of each pair, struggling through the mud pulling the gun carriage with an 18 pounder gun. Two soldiers on foot are also pulling the heavy carriage. Lest We Forget. Image came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM ART03334.
20.01.2022 The story behind the iconic photograph taken on Gallipoli in 1915 that I painted in 2015.
19.01.2022 Progress of painting... couldn't do much for 3 weeks... this painting could take a long time.
19.01.2022 Nearly 50 years ago in 1971 I painted this painting using a knife. The flash of the camera caught the glass, but it is the only photo I can find of the painting. It is still in existence but unfortunatley I don't have it anymore. It would be the oldest painting of mine still in existence.
17.01.2022 The story behind a painting I did of Corporal Leslie ‘Bull’ Allen MM (plus US Silver Star) in 2015.
14.01.2022 Would have to be one of the most poignant photographs of WW1. Lest We Forget.
10.01.2022 I painted the painting titled ‘DAVE’ in 2015... in the 100th year anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli. The painting was donated to Dave (the subject of the... painting), who is an Australian Vietnam War veteran, for his service to our country in Vietnam, and later, for his service to his local community. My sister Denise, who lives in Queensland, told me Dave’s story and asked me if I could paint Dave and it would be presented to him. I was very happy to do the painting and sent it up to Queensland and Denise and others presented it to a surprised Dave. My sister recently told me it now hangs in Dave’s local RSL. My sister Denise has a very kind heart. About 15 years ago, I was speaking to a Vietnam War veteran and he told me he never marched on ANZAC Day, because the way he was treated when he came home from the war. I have never forgotten that. There would have been regular Army soldiers fighting in Vietnam my age at the end of the war for Australia... they would have been 18 or 19 years old. One of the most unforgettable times in my life was when I was invited to a Vietnam Veterans Day commemoration service in Adelaide where the song ‘Can You Hear Australia’s Heroes Marching?’, which I authored nearly 20 years ago, was played. It was an incredible experience. A helicopter flew over during the commemoration service and I got to eat with the veterans later. By the time the last Australian personnel were withdrawn, the Vietnam War had become Australia's longest war, and was only surpassed by Australia's long-term commitment of combat forces to the War in Afghanistan. It remains Australia's largest force contribution to a foreign conflict since WW2. By the 11th of January 1973, Australian involvement in hostilities in Vietnam had ceased. Nevertheless, Australian troops from the Australian Embassy Platoon remained deployed in the country until the 1st of July 1973, and Australian forces were deployed briefly in April 1975, during the Fall of Saigon, to evacuate personnel from the Australian embassy. Approximately 60,000 Australians served in the war, 521 died and more than 3,000 were wounded. I will put a photograph of Dave with his painting in a comment below. Lest We Forget. Some information came from Wikipedia.
09.01.2022 A photograph I took some years ago of the Vietnam War Memorial in the Torrens Parade Grounds, Adelaide, South Australia. The sun was behind the two figures and created the silhouette effect. Lest We Forget.
08.01.2022 Remembrance Day... 11th of November... Lest We Forget.
06.01.2022 Going to put some of my paintings on mugs for sale... this one is my Ned Kelly painting. It wraps around the mug.
02.01.2022 Smoky drawing framed and hanging on the wall... the drawing looks great on the coffee mug too.
02.01.2022 One of the most profoundly heartbreaking paintings focusing on WW1. "The Dead Stretcher-Bearer" by Gilbert Rogers, 1919. Lest We Forget.
02.01.2022 One of the most emotional videos I have created. Australians in the Vietnam War. Over ten years ago an instrumental recording of the song ‘Can You Hear Australia’s Heroes marching?’ was done by Fountain Gate Secondary College Band, Narre Warren, Victoria. Lest We Forget.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14BnjoTEoHw
01.01.2022 We are going into extreme lockdown here in South Australia from midnight, because of COVID-19. The state will shutdown, and to show how far it is shutting down,... we have been told there will not be any funerals or weddings at all during this time. This virus has greatly affected people worldwide and 2020 will not be forgotten for a long time. We have seen great courage and care from those on the frontline, like nurses, doctors and paramedics, in caring for those who have become very sick from this virus. They are our heroes, as those like them a 100 years ago. The photograph taken in 1919, is of a returned Australian soldier who was wounded and who is also suffering from influenza. He is with two Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurses, M. M. (Brooksie) Brooks and Smithy, outside the 'flu ward at the Randwick Military Hospital in Sydney (It later became known as the Prince of Wales Hospital). The VADs are wearing masks over most of their faces to protect themselves against the Spanish Influenza virus. The returned soldier is on crutches and has a heavily bandaged right foot and looks like he also has a bandage on his head. Lest We Forget. Information and photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM P02789.002.
