Have you read my story "The Memory of Dreams" ?
You can now purchase the whole adventure as either a softcover text-only book or as a lavishly illustrated hardcover (or softcover) book
Just go to the online bookstore to preview the first few pages and place an order.
An Illustrated Edition
By Douglas Wilkie
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About the Creator
On these pages, retrieved from numerous lost notebooks, you can find samples of the stories, poetry, paintings, drawings and photography created by Douglas Wilkie over many years.
Be warned! This web site is a bit like a labyrinth... following the links you are sure to be lured down some new path and never get back to where you started... but then, that's part of the intrigue. We hope you enjoy it.
Photography
Photography
An interest in photography began as a student at
Art School in Prahran - an inner suburb of Melbourne. Some images are a record of the places visited. Some are an expression of thoughts and beliefs held. Some are pure abstract creation. In the photography section you will find images of
Australia,
France,
Italy and other places in Europe. You will find images to accompany poetry... or should that be poetry to accompany images... such as
The Sixteen Venetian Courtesans, or
The Hundred Headed Capsicum.
Return to Rome is a picture story about a visit to Italy, Switzerland, Spain and France in November and December 2008.
You will also find many other things. Some require an invitation to be viewed. Just send in a request.
Paintings, Drawings & Other Artwork
Exhibitions & Reviews
Exhibitions and Reviews
The paintings and photography of the artist have been exhibited in a number of galleries including the Hamilton Regional Gallery, the McLelland Regional Gallery, Manyung Gallery, Walker Street Gallery, J-Space, the Mornington Art Gallery and the
Casey City Gallery. Several
Exhibition Reviews and notices have been included.
Poetry
Poetry was a natural form of expression when Douglas was a student in Art School. Some is based upon life experiences. Some is simply a way of expressing ideas and thoughts. Some of the earlier work is probably naiive and simplistic and could be reworked to express the sentiments in a more effective way. But it is how it was written at the time and so has been left in the original form.
Short Stories
Short Stories
Here you will find a number of
short stories. Some are purely fictional... created entirely from the imagination. Some are based on real life experiences and yet are not simply documentary accounts of events that happened.
Long Stories
Long Stories and NovelsMost of the longer stories were based upon real experiences. Yet they have a certain poetic licence applied to them.
Dear Rebecca is an account of a journey made to Europe during the northern winter of 1998-1999. It is accurate in that it describes the places and events, and that there are many Rebeccas, but the letters were never sent.
The Memory of Dreams is an account of another journey made to Europe in the European Winter of 2000-2001. The places described were visited, most of the people described were met, but did not necessarily all of the things described happened in quite the way the story tells it.
Philosophy & The Meaning of Life
Family Histories
Family HistoriesThe Cossticks is the story of the Cosstick family from origins in Sussex, England during the 1600s through to the emmigration of one family to the Victorian goldfields during the 1850s and the subsequent growth of that family in Victoria.
The Hamiltons is the story of a branch of the ancestors connected to the Cossticks. It traces the Hamiltons from their origins in Kent, England during the 1700s; the illustrious life of Sir John Hamilton at Dover, Kent; and the emmigration of one branch of the family to South Australia in 1837 where the Hamilton's Ewell Winery was established by one branch of the family while the other journeyed to the goldfields of Victoria and met the Cosstick family.
The Wilkies is the story of the Wilkie family from Scotland during the 1700s; through the generations who worked in Glasgow of the Industrial Revolution; through the involvement of the family in the Great War of 1914-1918; to the emmigration of one of the branches of the family to Australia.
