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16 Aug

Rangitoto Sunrise - 2024

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.

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16 Aug

Bethels Beach - 2024

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.

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16 Aug

Cathedral Cove - 2024

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.

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16 Aug

Minnies legacy - 2024

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, […]

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16 Aug

Flaw of the Bowl - 2024

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.

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16 Aug

Sister - 2024

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.

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16 Aug

Lysander - 2024

This figure study explores dreams, and the abundance of unseen shapes and patterns invisible to the unaltered mind.

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15 Aug

Emergence - 2024

This everything in revolution; just a universal thought expressed in Walnut and Stainless Steel.

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15 Aug

Only Dancers - 2024

This a painting of a partnership; a complicated simple thing.

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15 Aug

The Fading - 2024

A painting of things gone that are never lost.

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