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Christopher R. Inwood
Don the Shaking Palsy
oil, acrylic, and charcoal in wood
This is Don Currie. He is struggling with Parkinson's. It is striping him. The man he is, is slipping away. People robbed him using a bitcoin scam taking large sums of his money he earned selling the first forms of accounting software to Australian businesses.
His wife and the mother of their children, left him soon after the theft, not speaking to him anymore, even though they are at the same retirement
village. He was worried why Inwood asked him to sit for a portrait and said "Is he trying to paint starving prisoners of war?"
Through all of this pain Don sat for his portrait and joyfully regaled the highs and lows of his life with Inwood, and in a unconscious fraction of a moment he grasped with both hands at a lost thought. Click. What beauty.
Size: 60 × 91 cm
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About Christopher R. Inwood
Christopher R. Inwood has exhibited across Australia at galleries, art spaces, and festivals including, Brisbane Power House, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Brisbane Square Library, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Perc Tucker Regional gallery, Brisbane Street Art Festival and has been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize x 3, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Percival Portrait Painting Prize x 2, the Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artists Award, Melt Portrait Prize x 3. Inwood refined his understanding of art and its histories at The University of Queensland studying Art History.
