'Torn’ 2004
1200x1500 Acrylic on Canvas |
This painting represents the velocity of life. The push and pull of societal pressures in everyday living.
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'Links' 2004
2000x1900 Acrylic on Canvas
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‘Links' is a painting that has evolved from the ‘My DNA' series. I am developing cells of colour to create molecular surfaces that deconstruct the greater image.
I'm intrigued by the interplay of colours, line and texture that combine to create the painting.
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'Sonar' 2004
1000x1000 Acrylic on Canvas |
‘Sonar' represents the mind patterns that I feel are inherent in the development of these paintings. The intuitive informs the creation in my work.
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'Current' 2004
1500x1500 Acrylic on Canvas |
In ‘Current' I am attempting to create the visual illusion that reminds me of swimming where the elements of light and water are refracted and reflected.
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'Big Dots, Lotsa Culture' 2001
1600x1600 Acrylic on Canvas |
This is a 1.6 metre square painting with 16 large dots. The background is a complex matrix of interwoven surfaces, yellow, red, orange and black, perhaps a more subtle colour registration of the Land Rights theme. This abstract painting is bold and the viewer is drawn to it. The title is indicative of my sense of humour and is challenging people to address their values of culture as I have always maintained that all people deserve respect and equity for their place on this earth.
This painting works on two levels for me, the aesthetic and the underlying imputation. It could be dealing with culture in a scientific manner, always under the microscope. The large dots appear to be rampant with a living surface very like a laboratory dish, intimating that indigenous culture has been pronged and poked for much of its post-colonialist history, much to the amusement of the authorities who have developed policies that have inherently harmed 'the culture' of indigenous people. I perceive many levels in this work and hope that it will create dialogue about the relevance of contemporary urban art, within the many eschelons of the art world where stringent compartmentalisation makes the society feel more comfortable.
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'Hidden Embers' 2001
1500x1200 Acrylic on Canvas |
Hidden Embers is a work that has been developed with painting inside painting. I have tried to bring together disparate elements of abstraction, little cloisters of form, they hang in this painting as if suspended by time. The charcoal and glow of the remnants of the fire are apparent and I have worked the painting so that it brings out the enthusiasm in which it was painted.
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'Blue Horizon' 2001
310x1220 Acrylic on Canvas |
Blue Horizon is one of a series of paintings in which I was experimenting with line, colour and texture on an elongated canvas.
These paintings still have the narrative elements which are predominant on my previous works, but they are a step toward the abstract textured paintings that I have been concentrating on for my most recent body of work.
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'Living Land' 2001
1500x1200 Acrylic on Canvas
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'Living Land' is a multi-layered bushfire scene that has a pulsating resonance. You feel the intensity of the fire but can also delve into the multiple layers of paint that gives an almost luminescent quality. In this painting I tried to capture the universal energy of fire and in this case, it doesn't destroy but it brings life, thus connecting it to a long history of Aboriginal caretaking in this country.
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'Memory' 2001
1500x1200 Acrylic on Canvas |
Memory encapsulates an intensity of feeling for the understanding of the past through the mind of the present.
The spiral is a visual symbol often related to time and within the painting are figures that signify those who have inhabited our lives and lives before us.
This painting encorporates layers of texture and harmonious colours that also give it a depth and complexity that exists within the memory and also in dreams.
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'Blue Moon' 2001
310x1220 Acrylic on Canvas |
Blue Moon along with Blue Horizon is part of a series of paintings where line light colour and texture form the basis of the work. The literal element of the moon giving me a source of light that can reflect on the water.
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'Spiritscape' 2001
310x1220 Acrylic on Canvas |
This painting represents my interpretation of the inherent spiritual essence of the Australian landscape. I always try to imbue my paintings with this sense of connection.
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'Marine Life' 2001
310x1220 Acrylic on Canvas |
This painting represents the abundance of miniscule lifeforms that inhabit the very thing we take for granted. I believe that for life to continue we need to have more respect for the Earths hidden rescources.
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'Ying Yang' 2001
1220x310 Acrylic on Canvas |
'Ying Yang' is a visualization of the Chinese symbols that relate to opposing forces of nature.
This painting deals mainly with the representation of the earth that we inhabit and the vast infinity of space.
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'Clearing the Land' 1999
1500x750 Acrylic on Canvas |
'Clearing the Land' is one of two paintings that deal with images of my family's country at Lionville near Grafton in NSW. The 'Tree' paintings symbolise the strength of landscape imputed with the spiritual beings of my family. These paintings are green and black with a discord of ochre overlay to add a dramatic effect. This painting is predominantly to do with the clearing of land, not only trees but of its black inhabitants.
- Private New York Collection
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'Diver' 2001
1220x310 Acrylic on Canvas |
'Diver' is inspired by my memories of a waterfall near Tenterfield called Boonoo Boonoo where I would visit as a child with my family.
You could sit behind the falls and imagine figures flowing and diving before you as the light reflects through the cascade of water.
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'Green Velvet' 2001
31x1220 Acrylic on Canvas |
Green Velvet is another of my paintings experimenting on an elongated canvas.
In this painting I have moved away from the literal images that appear in Blue Horizan and Blue Moon and I have concentrated on texture and the luminosity of light within an unrealistic landscape.
This painting has an intensity of colour layered with subtle veils of light to give it a velvet appearance.
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'Armour Leaf' 2001
1000x1500 Acrylic on Canvas |
A leaf is a fragile and delicate element that evolves and re-evolves through the seasons. The levels of armour available to the leaf and to our very existance are the same and are one. Sun, earth, water, air.
'Armour Leaf' is a visual paradox of the delicate and the reinforced but it is also a statement on the vulnerability of the earth as we know it lest we consider the environment a resource worth protecting.
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'Returning' 2001
1500x750 Acrylic on Canvas |
'Returning' is a painting of an escarpment in Northern NSW where at a certain time of day the light on the cliff face reveals a thousand faces staring out from the rocks. It is a beautiful place and it gives you the feeling that the ancient guardians of the land are still there to protect it.
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'Bubble' 2001
1200x500 Acrylic on Canvas |
'Bubble is a fun painting of an explosion of oxygen underwater. As it reaches the surface it is encompassed with golden light before continuing its journey.
I enjoyed the application of paint and the delicate portrayal of light that makes this painting work for me.
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