ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

of Wendell Berry’s paradox that ‘theonly thing we have to preserve naturewith is culture; the only thing we have topreserve wildness with is domesticity.’From an Artspeak column in The Northern7Star, by Steven Alderton:John has been working on a verysuccessful new body of work that extendsfrom his previous enviro sculptures intopaintings. They are of the places he hascollected detritus for his sculptures. Thesubject matter also happens to be ByronBay, a place of infinite beauty and greataffection.From a review of my ContemporaryLandscapes exhibition (1999) by Catharina8Hampson:Years of abstract /figurative painting…inspired by living organic forms oftenmonochromatic, smoothed transitionto his present exhibition of works... Hisflotsam collection acquired at the sametime as his driftwood evolved into a46