Segment in Space

In this piece I wanted to explore how a familiar object, a red apple, can be made to behave in an unfamiliar way. Cutting a slice of apple is an everyday experience, however a segment detaching itself and moving out from the apple into space is somehow strange and unfamiliar. I'd like to invite the viewer to take another look at the objects we see every day, and marvel at their simple beauty, color, form and texture.

The saturated colors in this piece will stand out on any wall. Seen in person the piece looks three dimensional, lifting off the canvas. It's a fun piece, but also slightly surreal, a good conversation piece.

I hope you enjoy this artwork. I loved painting it.

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I am a still life artist working out of Sydney, Australia. My passion is painting fruit and foliage in oils on canvas. The shapes created from fruit give amazing compositions, with strong, bold shadows, complemented by subtle reflected light and translucency of the flesh. Leaves offer infinite opportunities for divine curves, beautiful organic textures and rich shadows. I love capturing the forms of different kinds of foliage and the incredible shapes they make.

I make art because it helps me understand the world around me better. I paint in oils because I love everything about them: their hues, consistency, smell, texture. All my paintings are double varnished to protect the surface and enrich the colours. I hope you enjoy my oil paintings, each of which tells a different story about fruit and foliage, and which celebrate the beauty of the natural world and all that is beautiful and satisfying in life.