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 […]
The Plight of the Bumblebee - 2025
The Plight of the Bumblebee plays in Rimsky-Kirsakov’s famed composition to explore a quieter, more urgent flight. A black and white cow, crowned in dandelions, calmly eats a flower as a lone bumblebee hovers nearby. The musical score of Flight if the Bumblebee is woven into the red background, suggesting a harmony mow at risk. […]
A pīwakawaka (fantail) is perched on a retro teapot, amongst an arrangement of native yellow pōhutukawa flowers and harakeke (flax) blooms.
Study in Blue- Mini Still Life - 2025
5 blown objects glued to a piece of Vitrolite to form a still life
Love is a Universal Language - 2025
A series of nine touchstones, each embossed with the word LOVE in nine languages; Cook Island, French, Hawaiian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Samoan, te reo Māori, Turkish. Made from three clays; local and imported, with three dissimilar surface treatments, fired to 1190oC electric.
