Tarana willows. Acrylics, 74x170 cms. AUD$9,500. For sale. Finalist Calleen Art Award, and Peoples' Choice Award, Cowra 2022.
Monkey Hill, Hill End region. Acrylics, 152x102 cms. AUD$10,000
Wash debris. Acrylics, 91x91 cms. AUD$4500, Sold
From Windy Hill. 2019, pastel, 55x55 cms. Sold
Twisted pine, Village Road, Newbridge. Acrylics, 106x78 cms, AUD$7,500
Rockley tree. Wash, compressed charcoal and pastel, 59x49 cms, AUD$2,400
Turon willow. Acrylics, 106x78 cms, AUD$7,500
Mt Carmel pines. Pastel, 38x60 cms, AUD$2,800
New pastel works, April 2022
Mt Macquarie, Carcoar, NSW. Triptych, acrylics, 101 x 450 cms overall. Price on Application.
Snow along Burraga Road. Acrylic on canvas, 74x170 cms. AUD$9,500 Sold
Rivulet Road. Pastel, 67x49 cms. October 2021. AUD$3,200
Birch trees from my tennis court. Acrylics, 101x101 cms, AUD$8500 Sold
Yellow moss along Arkstone Road. Gouache, 56x56 cms, 75x75 cms framed. AUD$3500
Current Work
A Closer Look
After recent years focusing on the built environment, my current work sees a return to a subject of great personal meaning – the landscape around where I grew up. In what I feel is a deepening preoccupation, I am driven to further explore my perception of the mysterious, sometimes primeval mood of the Australian bush. The deeper I go, the more I sense the pantheistic harmony of nature and the presence of an unseen ‘otherness’, although I am quickly reminded that thoughts of the sublime belong mostly to poets.
I call this new body of work, A Closer Look, to reflect my efforts to further examine what I find so elusive in the landscape. Apart from its mysterious interconnectedness, a recurring theme for me is nature’s irrepressible urge to regenerate and renew. I further explored this in 1999 in a series of paintings that hung abutting each other, to create long works in which the viewer experienced a series of intertwined relationships - what I call a continuum. I feel this most strongly in the Australian bush, particularly in the way trees group together. Slightly threatening shapes in dark shadows, but suffused with fleeting moments of colour, my metaphor for the never-ending process of rebirth. To that end, I am working on a new continuum of paintings drawn from the landscape around where I live.
“The earth never tires,
The earth is rude, silent and incomprehensible at first,
Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d,
I swear to you there are divine things more beautuful
than words can tell.”