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    COLIN PENNOCK

    Nov 07, 2018 4 minutes
    STORY KEVIN WILSON

    From policeman serving during Northern Ireland’s Troubles to painting in the peaceful surrounds of the Noosa Hinterland, Colin Pennock’s life has seen many changes, but it was the time spent in New York, including 9/11, which transformed his outlook and led to his current practice as an artist who paints emotional landscapes.

    Colin Pennock has quietly settled back into his creative life with partner Katrina in Queenland’s Noosa Hinterland. I can’t help thinking about the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song lyrics – ‘our house is a very, very fine house with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard’. With three cats and a beautiful secluded little house perched on a hill at the end

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