Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame

With a career spanning 30 years I have sort to interpret the Australian landscape, botanicals and Australian birds in movement filled with light and colour.
My paintings capture movement and light on familiar Australian themes . . .
From my early experiments with water-based medium, the randomness of paint has been fascinating to me; to show a loose shorthand description of the subject, with a touch of diffused mystery. I looked mostly at the post-impressionists to understand the possibilities that deconstruction of the form gave to the feeling of lightness, air, and the velocity of movement.
I then looked back a bit further, as far back as Peter Paul Rubens and his mastery of movement in the human form. I take my subjects in and out of focus as if using a camera obscura. Using light spots and abstract diffused form in the background as a compositional aide to move the eye around the work.
My latest series is about seeing simple light interactions with familiar forms that make the viewer take a second to understand the subject, the direction of light, and the surrounds. The object is not described explicitly but incongruously suggested by marks made by man-made objects to suggest the shape of natural things.
Painted with archival quality paint on the best prepared Triple primed poly cotton canvas or Linen
Stretched over thick edged kiln dried pine.
Painted round the edges – Does not need framing - ready to hang – made to last a lifetime