"Pinky" acrylic on paper 42x59cm
"Francois" acrylic on paper 42x59cm
"le Chien Habillé en Camouflage" acrylic on paper 42x59cm
My Matter Paintings.
Old doors can make a good base. Some of my matter paintings make use of them.
Sometimes I call these works assemblages or bas relief.
Disused machine parts, sticks, stones, unwanted jewellery, string, toys, you name it, can be added to my structures. I use various paints, acrylic, oil, or house paint that is excess to purposes.
I enjoy the process but take it just as seriously as any art practice that I indulge in. Composition is very important and I hope to make something that has potency and appears to be revealing knowledge.
Lost and Found 2024 acrylic and collage on canvas 50x40cm
"Pod Painting with Nine Found Objects" acrylic, oil and found objects on paper 81x101cm.
The Seven Mile Diggings acrylic and found objects on board 25x30cm
Ukraine mixed media and found objects on canvas 45x75cm
Whangamata Seascape 2012 mixed media and found objects 50x30cm
My Boab paintings
Denise and I spent ten nights in the East Kimberley sleeping in swags on the ground, no tent, but very happy in the million star hotel.
We also were amazed at the Boab trees, bottle trees, trees with their roots coming out the top.
In particular the "prison tree" Boab that we saw near Wyndham was very surprising. A huge bulk with endless amusing graffiti carved into its bulbous bark, and with underwear, shoes and other things hanging from its very weird branches.
The tree had an opening cut into it revealing a hollow interior which was supposedly used as a prison for the aborigines who were being taken to court during the killing times.
Bottle Green Boab acrylic on canvas 60x40cm
The Big Blue Boab Sep 07 acrylic on canvas 130x190cm
Potato Boab 2004 acrylic on canvas 76x51cm
Boab Country 08 mix media on paper 56x76cm
Prison tree Boab.
A very grotesquely comical looking thing with all sorts of objects hanging off its branches, shoes, various articles of clothing, etc and graffiti carved into its wrinkly bark.