Introduction

My work doesn’t often stem from places I know.  I don’t use photographs or sketches but I do roam the countryside and scenes like a bleak shore in midwinter  (in Saltmarsh) or a local stone age site (Tracks to the fort) might stay in my memory or provide a title, but these days I’m more interested in the land as part of cultural memory, in the way that native Australian art derives from this.

Movement, colour and a feeling of buzzing with life are important to me. There may be spaces of calm,  then suddern details of harshness.  A painting has to make you aware of itself; it needs to be unpredictable and avoid cliche.

I’ve never wanted to represent what is there, not that it is not extraordinary enough;   but there is so much more than we notice.   So my work does speak of  real things.  I think it was Klee who said ‘ Nature creates through the artist.‘

Singing Brink Oil on canvas 46 x 38 117 x 91

Singing Brink Oil on canvas 46 x 38 102 x 91

Tree Dreaming 2011 Oil on canvas 101.5 x 91.5 40 x 30

Stopping by Trees

Cerulean and Black 2011 Oil on canvas 91.5 x 101.5 30 x 40

Singing Brink 2011 Oil on canvas 117 x 96.5 46 x 38

Venus Rising 2000 Acrylic on paper 68.5 x 53 27 x 21

Red Oxide 2011 Acrylic on canvas 102 x 96.5 48 x 38

Harbour 2008 Acrylic on paper 71 x 51 28 x 20

acrylic on paper 81 x 51cm

Architecture 2008 Acrylic on paper 68 x 53 27 x 21

acrylic on paper 81 x 55cm