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 | | During the 1970s he won a number of national prizes and settled at Lavender Bay, Sydney, there to produce the lavender blue paintings of Sydney Harbour that seem so sensuously to sum up those rare chords of ecstasy that sustained his spirit. |
 | | He remained an artist of prolific output and his work showed little of the desperate struggle his life had become – with drugs, alcohol and personal trauma including divorce from his wife and close companion, Wendy. |
 | | 1975; McCaughey prize (Sydney) 1975, 76, 77; Archibald prize, 1976, 78; Sulman prize, 1976, 78; Wynne prize, 1977, 78. |
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