The Second Bird Cage on the Rabbit fence

This work in acrylic is painted entirely from memory after a bushwalk in along the Rabbit fence on the Qld - NSW border. It is a long rough walk without a clearly defined track so it is all the more astonishing to come across the remains of a hut in the middle of the rain forest. Once it was probably cleared around here and someone decorated the edges of the track with rocks. Now it is the home to bats and crows nest ferns grow from the roof. Inside there are still pots and pans, an old pack saddle and a stretcher bed. A strange place now .. nature taking over now that man has left off. My method when painting from memory is to pile detail upon detail until I have recreated the feeling of the place - the ferns, bats, lizards,the general decay , the rusty iron. Once this was temporary home to the men who built and maintained the fence.

Working in the Studio

Running Creek Landscape

This painting is based on a series of impressions and drawings from a favorite place just down in front of our house. Another painting I had fun with. I was trying to capture the liveliness and exuberance that is part of biodiversity. It is not a quiet place once you start to take notice just how much is happening.
Apologies for the smaller format but apparently it is necessary to protect my copyright over these images! They just won't come up so well. Perhaps I'll have to show you a few close ups as well.

Olive Harvest

I did this painting after picking olives one year with friends at a local grove at Darlington in the Scenic Rim. I have had a bit of fun with a few references to how famous artists have depicted harvests .. there is a little group that is straight out of a book on Van Gogh for example , but mostly it is from memory. This is the same grove that hosts the Art in the Olives Festival in May.

Painting is over a metre long and about 90cm high , framed in home grown red cedar from the property. Oil on Belgian linen. (Very sturdy home made stretcher) Price $1500...

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Bristle Bird Country 2 Oil on Belgian Linen

Highly Commended at Caldera Art Festival 2010

I have finally joined the ranks of artists on the web...with great reluctance as I'm only too aware that the computerised image of an edited photo of a painting is a poor thing compared to the real painting.

These are just some of the many paintings I have at home. However I do want to sell them occasionally. I am interested in expressions of interest in my work from galleries or private buyers. I work from drawings and small on the spot paintings in watercolour.

Fire on Black Snake Ridge Acrylic on Belgian Linen

Pool with Two Children Oil on Belgian linen