It was Jörg Schmeisser’s funeral in Canberra today. How sad we all are.

Our thoughts have naturally been with the family;  he really was one of Art’s true gentlemen.

[It’s a shock when one of your heroes goes. We’re going to miss that glowing Jörg Schmeisser ‘ochre red’ –  Megsie used to dye her hair precisely that colour in a gesture of serious homage. n(Ed)]

image: Jörg Schmeisser (Germany, Australia 1942– 2012)

Trees and shells, etching and aquatint, printed on ivory Hahnemühle paper

24.5 x 19.5cm  Collection of the Art Gallery of NSW