This framed watercolour and ink work uses patterns and texture to depict a flock of seagulls splashing at the water’s edge of a New Zealand beach. Seagulls, bunnies tail grasses and seashells… summertime favorites.
This is a framed watercolour painting on cotton rag paper. Mr Retro Fantail hops in to visit a bunch of pohutakawa flowers adorning a table. Perhaps he’s come to steal a taste of the kiwifruit for his morning tea.
Through the Trees as Dawn Breaks - 2025
The use of watercolour has produced an abstraction of light against dark shapes. The image is a promise of a new day.
Over the Sandhills Towards the Beach - 2025
This watercolour is an abstraction of the beach. The hot sand of the foreground extends up into textural lines of possible grasses. The eye is led on to the light of the water and the distant land.
Abstraction with Copper - 2025
The use of watercolour and copper powder has produced an image that constantly changes as light reflects on its surface.
Medium – bronze 1/1 It’s the fairy tale where ‘delicate’ wasn’t quite the brief.
I often look to the sky for freedom, for hope, for escape – but what if it looked back at me? ‘A Conversation’ holds this question. The figure stands between frames, caught in a moment of reflection. The sky watches; we watch it. Somewhere in between, a quiet conversation begins.
A quiet tribute to the old custom of Telling the Bees. A young girl approaches a weathered beehive, holding a large iron key – an emblem of passage and communication. She comes to share news, perhaps of a death, in keeping with the belief that bees must be told of life’s changes or risk falling […]
The Queen’s Gambit merges the precision of chess with the intricate order of the hive. A Regal Queen, crowned with a beehive and clad in bee-patterned silk, cradles a golden honeypot – perhaps of Royal Jelly, the elixir of queens. Her pawns, worker bees and drones, enact the famed chess opening against a lone black […]
