Hand of God
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
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 fence that divides the viewer from the hills.…
Creation
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 of the hills. There is a darkness to this…
Church
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, a thinner canvas. In a way, I was inspired…
Blue Moon
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. The additional aspect to this work is that it can…
Apocalypse
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. This work harks back to Checkmate, an earlier work,…
Night Falls
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 nights there. Following this I turned the poem into this…
Why Do You Hate Me?
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, why do you hate me? Saul, why do you…
Elois
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.”