Art Archive

  • Grace; No More of This

    Grace; No More of This

    Continuing with the use of stencils, text and spraypaints, I explored the idea of grace and mercy. The reds and blacks are strong colours paired with white crosses.

    “Grace
    Grace
    Grace
    No more of this
    They know
    They know not what they do
    Grace”

  • Mercy; Humbly Walk with Your God

    Mercy; Humbly Walk with Your God

    Continuing with the use of stencils, text and spraypaints, I explored the idea of grace and mercy. The reds and blacks are strong colours paired with white crosses. The text is taken from Micah 6:8.

    “Mercy
    Mercy
    Mercy
    Mercy
    To do what is right
    To love MERCY
    And to walk humbly with your God”

  • Days Bay

    Days Bay

    Days Bay holds a special place in my life. Having gone to school at Wellesley College and spending my formative years around there, I decided it was an important place for me to record in a painting.
    Further to this, in 2010, a year after painting this work, I got married in Days Bay as well.
    Shortly after painting this work, I took a conscious break from art and the art world. There were a number of factors to this; the main one being that I had become disillusioned with art galleries displaying ‘untalented’ artworks – works that create themselves or are mistakes of happenstance, or just plain rubbish. I no longer wanted to be considered an ‘artist’ because of what it was beginning to mean. I found it completely disrespectful to the talents of masters of the past such as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and Picasso to put these creations in the same ball park.

  • Blown Away in the Calm

    Blown Away in the Calm

  • Fulham; From Jury’s Inn, December 2005

    Fulham; From Jury’s Inn, December 2005

    My first painting using oil paints and learning the differences between them and acrylics. This further developed my intrigue in paintings by J.M.W. Turner and used the trip to Europe to build my interest and knowledge of his paintings seeing them first hand in the Tate London and spending hours looking at his works.

  • Wairarapa; Distant Hills with Long Plains

    Wairarapa; Distant Hills with Long Plains

    Having painted Moment, I wanted to create another large work similar to Tararua Ranges. This one is slightly bigger and depicts more details occurring in the foreground.

  • Restricted Freedom

    Restricted Freedom

  • Grace; Full of Grace

    Grace; Full of Grace

  • You Reflect the Light

    You Reflect the Light

    Painted using black paint with stencilled letters, the difference in thickness creating the text and finished with multiple coats of gloss polyurethane, this work creates a reflective black surface that the viewer can see themselves in.

    “YOU reflect the light that shines upon you”

  • Piwakawaka I

    Piwakawaka I