I’m not a landscape painter but I do like landscape paintings. I remember my first visit to Mt. Tamborine in the Gold Coast hinterland. The dense, majestic rainforest is in stark contrast to the rolling-green fields of the UK landscape I had grown up with. Just...
I like the oddball. Comic strips from the 1950’s, saucy-seaside postcards, American pin-up art. So this is an amalgam of images, memories from childhood, places in the world I’ve visited, stuff I've simply liked and enjoyed along the way. However, the real inspiration for this was Hannah,...
This was specifically executed for a ‘Small Scale’ art competition. No canvas with a width or depth, greater than 61 cms or 24 inches in old money! I suppose you'd call it a 'still life' and, if so, it's the second one I've painted and is...
This canvas took the longest to finish. I often find the resource and reference for my paintings in and around the home and garden. In this instance the landscaping pebbles down the right side were found in front of the laundry door exit....
Monument Valley, Utah and corny, old, American Westerns in Technicolour . My first landscape since art student days. Are those rocks orange or what?...
Caloundra, a resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, provided the waves and rocks....
Call yourself an artist? You gotta paint a ‘Still Life’ to be taken seriously...
What’s it all about? It’s about the caption in the speach bubble. It’s about everyone’s fear and apprehension - death and immortality....