Abundance in nature is all around us, the beauty of colour texture and serenity portrayed in the art of painting with wool by needle felting and blending colour.
Bethels Beach is about capturing the sea and waves crashing against the rocks. The fibre in the grass is meant to draw you in to the picture a feeling of abundance of nature at its best. Needle felted, the art of wool painting.
Cathedral Cove is a place of Sanctuary the rocks, trees and cliff draw you in to a majestic scenery I really want you to feel nature and be part of it. Needle felting, the art of wool painting.
Oil on canvas with modeling paste texture. Minnies legacy, is a whimsical portrait of Minnie Onion, a pioneering spirit born in New Zealand in 1869. Depicted in her wedding dress, adorned with a fish brooch gifted by her husband Hugh Fisher, Minnie gazes up at a beautiful Kokako perched above her in a Kowhai tree, […]
This painting is about addiction in loved ones. I wanted to represent the guilt, culpability and self-isolation associated with this. Contrast is expressed both in the colour choices, and the variability between internal turmoil and the face we present to the world.
This painting is about the idea of different selves meeting. This could be future and past selves, or the different facets of a person required for various situations.
This figure study explores dreams, and the abundance of unseen shapes and patterns invisible to the unaltered mind.
This everything in revolution; just a universal thought expressed in Walnut and Stainless Steel.
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