The Sea : 2001 - 2009

            
On returning to Adelaide
            and living at Moana Beach the focus shifted from the sky to the
            sea. The sky is still relevant but now the horizon splits the
            works, sometimes giving a reflective poetry, at other times a
            threatening undertow with optical colour and light. The first
            works in this series evocatively titled 'The Albatross Departs'
            used the doorway size format as in the previous paintings supported
            by numerous pastel drawings.

            
'The horizons often
            seem heightened in their delineation by the starkly contrasting
            vertical ribbons of reflected colour, blended overlaid into a
            series of graded, curtain-like surfaces that move across a spectrum
            of meteorological effects and nuances.'

            
Ken Orchard 'The Insistent Horizon'
            essay, Adelaide Festival Festival Fringe 2004

            
'Goddard, in this
            almost Gothic transcription of sunsets, may have been creating
            some kind of sustainable metaphors for a South Australian mindset,
            one that seeks reassurance in the calm and predictable but sees
            in the slightest ripple or dark recesses of the smallest wave,
            a portent for disaster. Seductive but slightly disturbing images.'

            
John Neylon The Adelaide Review
            April 2004

            
'Western space is,
            for Goddard, dreaming space. It is where reality loosens its
            grip and the hypothetical hovers just over the horizon. Cut adrift
            from the land the viewer of Goddard's 'The Albatross Departs'
            images is required to and perhaps fend off the mesmerising rhythms
            of oil smooth seas.'

            
John Neylon
            'Open
            Borders' exhibition, Fleurieu Biennale, November 2004

            
 

            
These sea works were further
            developed with a greater emphasis on' The Edge' - the shallow
            water of the foreshore,the playground,the desirable real estate.
            Titled 'With Ocean Views', they were exhibited during
            the S.A.L.A. Festival 2005.



            'The fascinating patterns of waves, ripples, eddies and
            the endless permutations of light and flowing sunsets create
            an environment that is seductive. This last series is post- tsunami.
            People, cultures and nations disappear - as will playgrounds.'

            
Exhibition notes
            for 'With Ocean Views' July 2005

            
'... menace and high
            passion assert themselves through deep shadows lurking in the
            heart of innocent waves and ripples and in the coarsening of
            colour palette which has begun to relocate these once-suburban
            subjects into twilight zones of uncertainty where, as if in a
            J.G. Ballard science-fiction novel, water turns to toxic sludge
            and dreamy clouds begin to reform as iron birds of prey.'

            
John Neylon
            The Adelaide
            Review August 2005
          
        
      

      

        
The Sea : 2001 - 2009


        

        

          

            

              


              
The Albatross Departs Evening 1

              
oil on canvas,184 x 92 cm, 2003
            
            
 
 
            

              


              
The Albatross Departs Evening
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oil on canvas,184 x 92 cm, 2003
            
          
        

      
 

      

        

          

            


            
The Albatross Departs - Summer Morning
            - No. 1,

            
oil on canvas,184 x 92 cm,  2004
          
          
 
 
          

            


            
The Albatross Departs - Summer
            Morning - No. 2,


            
oil on canvas,184 x 92 cm, 
            2004
          
        
      
 






      
 

      


      

        
Sea Works Curved Wave, oil on canvas, 61 x 122 cm, 2005
        
 
        
 
        
 
        
 

      
 

      


      

        
Last Summer Wave,
        oil on canvas, 565 x 200 cm, 2007

      
 

      


      
 

      
 

      


      
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