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Oh The Rocks Cry Out
2004Acrylic on board
W180 x H604
Private collection
Luke 19:40 – “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
“Oh, the sound of the rocks: cry out”
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Outside Window
Outside Window
This work was created for a friend at art school. Inspired by several artworks with a muted tone that I had been seeing in different places.
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Petone Esplanade
Petone Esplanade
A night painting of the beautiful lights of the Petone foreshore, seen many times in my late night trips home on the train.
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Petone Foreshore
Petone Foreshore
Another landscape where I’ve used a monochromatic and limited palette to create a scene from a familiar location to my childhood, having spent many summer days down at the beach in Petone.
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State Highway 2
State Highway 2
Another view I regularly saw heading into Wellington from the Hutt Valley, this time from the other side of the train heading south.
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Tararua Ranges
Tararua Ranges
A scene painted from a memory, fictional in essence, but with a particular light and shade of the mountain ranges north of Wellington. After painting them, they reminded me directly of the Wairarapa and thus named it as such.
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The Unknown
The Unknown
Strips of canvas glued to a board allowed for a series of individual landscapes placed on top of each other. This method has been done by several artists and so I decided to give it a go myself, with poetic lines of text placed along each horizon.
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This Thing I Do
This Thing I Do
This work I did for another friend at art school; we challenged each other to create a painting in the other person’s style, which is why this work is slightly different to others I have created.
“One Love. One God. One Way.
It’s this thing I do; Paint the drop of inspiration in light, drawing of life; existence itself and all who draw near influenced in a deeper, spiritual way; searching, yearning for the truth and the way through the darkness.”
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Weather Or Not
Weather Or Not
My first exploration into glossy enamel paint and mixing and matching finishes to create different layers on the canvas. The stencils were printed out on the computer, cut out manually and then dabbed on with silver paint.
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Where Water Meets Land
Where Water Meets Land
Silver and black paint, mixed in with some green to create the stormy waves, the text pierces the sky like rain clouds and the eery silhouette of the silver hills hovers on the horizon.
“Where water meets land shore and seabed merge. created leant to all of us for a short time in the eye of eternity. Leant; not to fight; but to enjoy, not sanctioned by rage or by ethnic minority or majority, everyone equal everyone to use and everyone to share.”