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. Forecast: StormyPredictedWeather or…
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.…
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.
Another view I regularly saw heading into Wellington from the Hutt Valley, this time from the other side of the train heading south.
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.
A night painting of the beautiful lights of the Petone foreshore, seen many times in my late night trips home on the train.
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.
Mai Beach is a fictional place. This is a comment on the ownership of the beaches, and some beach accesses in New Zealand being changed, with the foreshore and out 20 metres into the ocean now being owned by local…
Following on from my finger painted and stenciled “Idealistic” painting that was a comment on Don Brash’s ‘Orewa’ speech from the time he was leading the National Party. This triptych utilises the copper paint that features in previous work. The…
The iced over lake stretches out as you look out from the verandah. This eery, mysterious glow creeps across the ice cold landscape.