Standing in this country, the Flinders Ranges, filled every cell of my body. There is a deep rumbling silence in these mountains and it seemed only possible to evoke the time and weight of this landscape with a dark and heavy sky.
The images are small, which belie the vastness of this landscape.
Oil on canvas and board
2025/26
The Brown Cuckoo Dove caught my eye and captured my imagination. They are elegant, serene and unfazed by humans. They seem to move around in small groups and I have overlayed an imagined conversation told with an imagined shadowy subtext.
Oil on Paper
Framed
Dimensions Variable
2025
There is a kind of sweetness in porcelain figurines with their miniature displays of everyday life. Representations of virtuous living perhaps.
Finding song lyrics (primarily from L Cohen) that seemed to fit as titles gave the figures a new life, and has, to me, re-purposed these sweet and naïve dioramas.
Oil on Canvas
Oil on Cork - framed
Dimensions variable
2024
Recently I have found myself beguiled by the world of people and their dogs, more particularly the world of dog shows. Show dogs, groomed and sleek, shining, muscular, pimped and oblivious. Their innocence prevails, free of guile or cunning as they are drawn into human machinations and ambition.
The viewpoint of all the images is at dog-eye-level, people are present but mainly as legs and bottoms and restraints. A view of humanity from a dog’s perspective.
Oil on canvas
Gouache on Paper
2024
The built environment. A very small and ancient land.
Malta can give one sensory overload. The congestion, the noise, the building, the dust and the garbage smell. The ancient is cheek by jowl with the new. Even in the tracts of open land there is not a rock that hasn’t been touched by human hand. It is a beautiful madness.
Gouache on paper studies from time spent in Malta 2018.
2019
In the sky paintings the gaze shifts, the horizon is lowered and disappears as the eye line is raised upward, heavenward, whilst still keeping the viewer on terra firma. The tips of the trees, the powerlines and the lights remind one that it is an earthly world and a mortal eye that looks and sees.
Oils on board
2018
The visceral closeness to the life cycle and more specifically, our experience of time and death can be seen in rural Australia in a way that is largely absent in the urban world. The images of tagged, vulnerable livestock are an allegory and a similar reminder of their and our fate.
Oils on board or galvanised tin
2017
Explores the pecking order and obsessions of the shadowy chook world.
Gouache on paper
2014
This is a series of open doorways with dark interiors; a concealing, portentous darkness.
Oil on linen
2011
Icarus, the metaphorical story of the folly of youth.
Charcoal and pastel on paper
2008
Childhood is not all rosy.
Oils on paper
2004
