MOONLIGHT WATTLES AND PRICKLY PEAR

My original modern landscape artwork was inspired by full moon nights and flowering wattle trees down gullies and along ridges of the steep mountains just outside of Brisbane.

Midnight blue starry skies and a full moon glow over the countryside makes for a beautiful night time experience.

Prickly pear trees dotted here and there too, but the golden wattle are so beautiful at this time of year. They are Australian Native Trees, the National Floral Emblem of Australia, and celebrated by everyone with their own dedicated day each year…..no wonder why!

A riot of colour with yellow, orange and greens of the natural bush at night, this original, contemporary Australian landscape has been created to take you to the country in your own home.

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Hello and welcome to my eclectic gallery of contemporary artworks.

My art is about essence and feeling with playful colour inspiration provided by the beautiful flowing colours of professional quality acrylic paints.

Stylised brush strokes and original contemporary design are used to create modern day, one off artworks, with a little bit of paradise added!

They are whimsical artworks with a difference, painted with no reference to any previous artworks or artists……just as the “Old Masters” were fixated on reinterpreting their time and place in the art world.

Painting is an interpretive expression of a deep connection with this world around me…..wide open spaces that have been home to five generations of my family……proud farmers and builders who cleared the land, built homes, schools and roads for future benefit of all.

I create from my studio in Brisbane, and exhibit in major Art Exhibitions throughout the year. The Doyles Art Awards is a prestigious Art Exhibition on the Gold Coast and again I was chosen as a Finalist for 2026.

You will see a selection of my paintings at The Tower Art Show, The Brookfield Art Show, The Royal National Show in Brisbane, Toowoomba Grammar School and Downlands Art Exhibition with many artworks selling.

Travels all around Australia, including to Perth on the Indian Pacific, caravanning and seaside holidays inspire artworks featured in my gallery.

I was the feature artist at the historic Woodlands of Marburg with my artworks lining all of the walls of their Tommy Smith Cafe and Conference Rooms with Brisbane Cafes hanging and selling my artworks.

Impressions of vibrant, colourful landscapes, lavender fields, jacarandas, poincianas, mango and fig trees, outback bottle trees, wattles, wetlands, pandanus and she oaks all tell their stories on canvas with stylised brush strokes and palette knife textures applied.

Every artwork is intentionally created to be unique. No artificial intelligence is used in my creations. I commence a painting with a white canvas and create by freehand…..my muses are nature, changing landscapes, sunshine, new beginnings and memories.

Please scroll my large collection of SOLD artworks as commissions are welcome and prints can be discussed.

Please contact me here for commissions and artwork enquiries.

All artworks are copyright protected.

Please enjoy!