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Peter Kingston Take it or leave it

The eye, the aesthetic lens of artists, has made an indelible impression upon our everyday.

A motorway overpass is very Jeffrey Smart, a hillside of saplings is rather Fred Williams, a backlit side-table covered in flowers is just so ‘Olley.’ So too, the glisten on Sydney’s magnificent harbour with, for example, a retreating ferry is entirely ‘Kingo.’

Such is the tenacity of Peter Kingston’s drive that he has realised countless expressions of Luna Park, tug boats, mists, seasons and crepuscular rays of light,

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