Title Artwork 1: In the Great Theatre of the World
Medium: Oil on Linen
Dimensions: 745 x 965mm
Price: $1795
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Title Artwork 2: Green Hills
Medium: Oil on Linen
Dimensions: 580 x 550mm
Price: $750
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BA Fine Arts – Melbourne Institute of Technology (1996)
Smorgen Contemporary Art Award – 1998
Impressions Art Award runner-up – 2012
We moved from Melbourne to Nelson in 2010, after retirement. In the South Island, the scenery is inspirational. From my studio I can reference an ephemeral landscape. The mist and clouds constantly change; the light is sometimes dramatic and harsh, sometimes soft and unifying, but always beautiful.
Working traditionally, I pay homage to early landscape painters, J M Turner, Ruskin, and Australian painter Richard Clements who searched for the sublime. I am an intuitive painter, whose work evolves slowly. The surface is worked and reworked to create a sense of depth, space, time and light.