Hand of God
2003 Acrylic on canvas W506 x H506 Sold I’ve always been fascinated with drawing hands. They’re one thing that I can do. I saw an image similar to this that inspired me to create this painting.
Gallery Painting
Flash
This portrait of my childhood cat growing up, I decided to try my hand at animal portraits and capturing a degree of realism for my work. In 2007, after his death, I decided to rework this piece, as it did…
Fence Post
2003 Acrylic on calico W620 x H2230 Sold This piece continues the landscape studies of McCahon in my collection. It is a tall, skinny mural that towers above the viewer, over two metres tall. The foreground is solidified with a…
Creation
2003 Acrylic on un-stretched calico W1890 x H490 Sold Here I take the next step of building my love of the works of Colin McCahon. The text is blended with the landscape, with the sharp cubist lines and deep greens…
Church
2003 Acrylic on un-stretched calico W1890 x H350 Sold One of my first works that I sold at exhibition, this work depicts a typical country church in a vast landscape. This piece measures 1.9m across, and was created on calico,…
Blue Moon
2003 Acrylic on canvas (damaged) W380 x H760 Private collection One of the early landscape works where I explored the sense of a blue moon (aside from there not being any blue paint used), with it rising over still waters.…
Apocalypse
2003 Acrylic on Hessian W1170 x H1790 Private collection This is the largest piece I have painted so far. It is also my first on hessian. I was surprised at how much paint was required to paint on this surface.…
Night Falls
2001 Acrylic on un-stretched canvas W1050 x H740 Private collection While attending the National Leadership Development Course in 2001, which consisted of a 3 day solo on the shore of Lake Rotowiti, I had written a poem one of the…
Why Do You Hate Me?
2001 Acrylic on canvasboard W610 x H914 Private collection The final piece of my early McCahon studies on canvasboard. After this piece I began a different journey with these works and moved onto studying the landscape a bit more. “Saul,…
Elois
2001 Acrylic on canvasboard W610 x H914 Private collection A continuation of this series of work based off Colin McCahon’s work of the same theme. “Elois lama sabachthani. Father I give you my life. And then He breathed His last.”