Recent Work

Spring 2
Oil on Canvas
455mm x 450mm
Melbourne 2010.

Storm 2
Oil on Canvas
1010mm x 760mm
Melbourne 2010

Night Moon
Oil on Canvas
305mm x 230mm
Melbourne 2010.

Lake 2
Oil on Canvas
250mmx x 250mm
Melbourne 2010.

Lake
Oil on Canvas
255mm x200mm
Melbourne 2010

Storm, Small
Oil on Canvas
200mm x 200mm
Melbourne 2010.

New Work. New direction.

Storm
Oil on Canvas
Melbourne 2010
102mm x 760mm .

Maybe it's spring in the air. I have a feeling of change overwhelming me. I have not been spending much time in the studio in the last few months until this week when all of a sudden I cannot get out.
The catalyst was taking all my painting off the wall and resolving to start again in filling them up. It is the advantage of having a good hanging system that it is no real commitment in hanging anything on the wall - it can easily be changed.
Maybe I am feeling a little NZ home sick but I seem to be inclined to landscape right now. I have also put away the brushes and resolved to only work with a pallet knife. It is wonderfully messy and immediate.

St Michael Archangel Art Award

Here I am trying to look nonchalant at the St Michael's Archangel Award. I was really impressed with the calibre of entrants and very proud to get selected.

I guess it's OK to lean on your own paintings at an exhibition.

The catalogue looked great - I got a double page spread.

The Boneyard, Tucson Arizona.

Boneyard Tucson 2
Oil on Canvas
1210mm x 760mm
Melbourne
2010

Boneyard Tucson 1
Oil on Canvas
1210mm x 300mm
Melbourne
2010

Where do all the planes go when they die? The Boneyard, Tucson Arizona (officially known as 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group). US military aircraft are dumped here for scrap and spare parts. They are laid out with military precision. On first view I marveled at the pattern they made. This soon moved to being horrified to the waste of it all with the total original purchase price of the 4400 aircraft is estimated at 27 billion dollars. It dawned on me that the pattern of the assemblage had a resemblance to a Persian rug which given that some of these aircraft probably spend some of their lifetime bombing the Middle East there is some irony there.

The Door.

The Door
Oil on Canvas
360mm x 460mm
Melbourne
2010

Landscape - SFO

SFO
Oil On Canvas
900 x 900mm
Melbourne
2010

We lived in San Francisco for a year and it was a monumental year for us for lots of reasons. I have mixed memories of San Francisco Airport - arriving for a new adventure and the trepidation of having to find my way out of the place through a snake pit of road lanes and into the city, driving out to pick up much missed friends and family and being amazed that after a while I was not so overwhelmed by the place. San Francisco was becoming home.

SFO from above looks very surprising. It is a tartan pattern but the spaces between the runways are desolate, scorched earth. There is no effort made to make it look pretty.