This is a very rich imagery. It is by Tim Maguire.

Just beauty? Or beauty and decay? Melancholy perhaps? A fragment charged with meaning? Do they have their roots in the Baroque?

What about this fleshy stuff?All surface and no meaning? Wall decoration for the rich?

And isn't this just so helpful:

"Maguire's career is marked by various distinct styles each of which indicates further exploration into the idea of what painting is, or can be."

And this blurb from here is not much better:

"A painting is much more that just an image. it�s a beautiful day asserts that paintings provide unique material conditions for us to experience reflective relationships between ourselves and the world around us."

Well it was a beautiful day in Victor Harbor---rain, sun and clouds sweeping across the heavens. We sat on the cliffs tops watching the ocean play. We looked for the whales, felt the sea spray sweep across us and watched the sun flicker across the whitecaps of the rolling surf.

The dogs returned fromtehir explorations with a dead penguin a kangaroo thigh bone.

Back to Tim's still lives. The work is more than being decorative and vacuous - a top-dollar art equivalent of impressionist posters. A definite misreading. Those flowers are disturbing.

This is much much closer.