Red Hot and Crazy

I built this collage up in layers. It has a selection of handmade papers including Japanese text and my favourite spiral stamp. I love my new tool for doing fine paint lines!! So much fun!!

Red and Gold

Here is an abstract I just finished. It is 12" x 12" on a gallry wrapped canvas with painted black edges. It has some Golden glass bead gel and Micaceous Iron Oxide gel to add texture. The red squares and rectangle are handmade paper collaged on and then the red acrylic on top. It has an earthy masculine feel to it.

Milner Gardens -Art and Photography

I had the priveledge of being invited to paint and show my work in the beautiful Milner Gardens, Art in the Garden Show.

It was ideal weather for painting outdoors with only a couple of gusts of wind. I had the perfect spot with a beautiful view of the ocean and close to the live music that was playing throughout the weekend. I met lots of people and many of the artists. To make a great weekend better I sold two paintings!!

OCAC Art Camp

This summer I was delighted to teach art to 6-9 year olds. We learned about great artists like Kandinsky andVan Gogh. We did mixed media, collage, tecture painting and photo transfer.
Coolage created by 8 year old Taylor

Collage created by six year old Rhys.

Kandinsky Colour study, each child did 6 squares and we taped them all together to form one large painting. Impressive!!

Abstracted Realism

Mystic Mountain

Inspired by the rockies and a moody sky this very aboriginal looking woman appeared in my painting.

Deep in Thought

This painting was totally intuitive, as I was splashing some colour onto my canvas I saw this face appear.

Mysterious

Once again this face intuitively appeared out of an abstract I woas doing, check out her eye is was a stamp from Africa that I had put inbefore she appeared, the postmark her pupil with the white of the stamp above it. Her hat is enhanced with cheesecloth.








I tried to be abstract!!

Yellowstone Inspirations

These abstract textural paintings where inspired by a trip to Big Sky Montana and Yellowstone National Park. I took over 500 digital photos of the texture of the amazing landscape.

A Tree I Stand

A tree I stand tall, my roots
Firmly planted in my beliefs
Each ring of growth
Another year of wisdom
New branches, spring green
Renewal
My journey continues

This is a piece I recently entered in a show called Chapter and Verse