Thirty years in the making, Womerah Lane is a collection of stories, paintings and drawings that cover the period Tom Carment has lived in the inner-city suburb of Darlinghurst while travelling the country as a plein air artist.

Carment writes as he paints – from life – capturing the likeness of a particular place in time, or the moment when he sees something striking or strange. His paintings and drawings are small, limited by what he can carry with him on his travels. In his writing too he is a miniaturist working on a large scale. Free-flowing yet nuanced, his work evokes the places he visits – farms, beaches, cottages, building sites – and the people and objects he encounters, friends and strangers, the homeless and the famous, fish, typewriters and eggs. Each has its own story.

It is Carment’s quiet determination to capture life as it passes, across all corners of the country, that makes this collection unique.

Signed copies and limited editions are available on request. Contact Tom at tomcarment@ozemail.com.

Over their weekly conversation in an inner-city cafe, photographer Michael Wee persuaded his friend, painter and writer Tom Carment, to embark on some walks into 'wild' Australia. Inexperienced long-distance bushwalkers, Michael and Tom learned en route as they traversed hot, rainy, snow-covered, and bushfire-blackened terrain. Alongside Michael's haunting, dramatic photographs, and Tom's delicately observed watercolours and drawings are stories of each walk, interweaving history with anecdote, humour with observation. Seven Walks is the companion book to their adventures and captures the feeling of heading out on foot along a narrow track, into a beautiful landscape.

“Tom Carment's writing, like his art, seduces quietly: austere, highly articulate, always fresh, with a dry sense of the absurd. In this calm, modest register he commands great territories.” – Helen Garner

To read more about Seven Walks, including segments of the book, visit the website.

Signed copies and limited editions are available on request. Contact Tom at tomcarment@ozemail.com.

Tom Carment was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to document the construction of Council House 2 (CH2) through sketches, paintings and diary notes. Over the two years of construction, he visited the site and captured the building from its earliest stages of excavation through to its completion in 2006. Compiled into a book published by the City of Melbourne, this collection of paintings, drawings and observations, document the construction of the "greenest office building" in Australia - CH2.

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Days And Nights In Africa brings together a collection of stories, written by Australian painter Tom Carment, who spent fourteen months travelling, drawing and painting in Zimbabwe between 1981 and 1983.
Captured in this evocative book is a unique gallery of characters and landscapes which come vividly alive both in the writing and illustrations. Tom Carment’s vision of Zimbabwe, a country only recently emerged from a colonial past and white domination, has a directness and simplicity which is refresh in its clarity and observation. 

“Writing about foreign places is a great temptation to the exotic eye we all carry with us and to the purple pen. It takes a disciplined spirit to see what is evocative of life lived in the mud and muddle of things, and considerable poise in the writing to decline easy effects in favour of plain statement.
Tom Carment keeps ‘colour’ when he uses it for his paintings of life (mostly people) in Zimbabwe. The prose pieces reminded me often of the good Hemingway of In Our Time, those short disciplined exercises in seeing in which Hemingway learned much that he was, over the years, unhappily to forget.”

– A Writer Abroad, David Malouf, Adelaide Review 1986.

Days and Nights in Africa is currently out of print but can occasionally be found online second-hand