Yesterday our office was invaded by a fast-talking Santa Claus look-a-like character selling paintings. At first we thought he as just some crazy dude trying to flog knock-offs, but he told us his story and showed us (all) his work.

And it was good. Real good.

His line was that the galleries sell them for $1200-1400 a piece, and then 40 days later he gets half of the cash. He spends his days traveling around WA painting things he likes the look of. He’s heading up to Broome next, so he wanted to move a few paintings beforehand so he had a few bucks to get him there.

All of the paintings were really, really good. We all expected it to be quite poor quality, but instead he had awesome scenic paintings of the trees in Pemberton, the Bathurst lighthouse at Rottnest, wheat fields in Kalgoorlie and yachts in the bay at Geraldton.

We bought a painting for the office, shown below. It was created last December in Pemberton. I like the idea of a “think tank” in our office :)

You can see my toe in the bottom right corner. I think I will ask Andrew Wall about making a frame for it.