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.
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.
The quiet elegance of a simple still life study. Watercolour and pencil on watercolour paper.
