Shared Experience: Troops in back of truck, Libya
Both as a soldier and an artist, Hele felt a great sense of empathy for the “ordinary” men in the field. Using the pink and mauve hues of the desert in his North African paintings, he recorded the hardships borne by the infantryman of the 6th Australian Division: endless marching, dust storms, lack of sleep, and extreme temperature fluctuations between day and night.
Paintings
- Battle of Britain
Paul Nash - Burma - 14th Army: the battle of the Sittang Bend. Men of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment making an armed patrol
Leslie Cole - HMS Ark Royal in Action
Eric Ravilious - A Parachute Bomb
Matvyn Wright - Before Zero Hour
Alex Colville - Greece
Lyndon Dadswell - H.M.A.S. Perth fights to the last, 28th February, 1942
Murray Griffin - Night Target, Germany
Miller Brittain - Night Air Raid
Charles Comfort - Light Coastal Forces Blow Up An Enemy Merchantman
Richard Eurich - Wreckage On Beach Near Newhaven, England
Michael Forster - A Crater in the Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong
Leonard Rosoman - Submarine Pens At Brest
Michael Forster - Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
Donald Friend - Shattered Landscape, Cleve
Alex Colville - Central Square, Tobruk
Ivor Hele - Wrecked ME 210
Charles Comfort - Home Again
Miller Brittain - Troops in back of truck, Libya
Ivor Hele - Hitler Line
Charles Comfort