Recent Paintings

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The latest work

small child watching a pink doll's pram, golden lion, wooden train, plastic animals and surreal flowers floating in space
Scenes from Childhood
oil on canvas 76 cm x 138
two creepy dolls and a threadbare teddy bear sitting in golden glow in the middle of a blue forest of bones. They seem to be eating something skeletal
Teddy Bears Picnic
oil on canvas 45 cm x 66 cm
several surreal creatures handing a string of flowers to a tree-like figure in cream draperies. They are in a barren landscape
Flowers for the Bride
oil on canvas 76 cm x 61 cm
Garden Party oil on canvas 56 cm x 71 cm
Garden Party
oil on canvas 56 cm x 71 cm
pastel coloured construction of strange flowers and animals
Capriccio
oil on canvas 60 cm x 30 cm
dark blue painting with bemused woman being handed a suspicious object by a surreal stall-holder
Night Market
oil on canvas 71 cm x 56 cm
white tablecloth with tree-shaped figure and green cake consisting of melting candles
Birthday Cake
oil on canvas 30 cm x 61 cm
trees morphing into dancing figures while bushwalkers eat their lunch without noticing
Bush Burlesque
oil on canvas 50 cm x 50cm
singing figure on anthropomorphic hilltop. There are singing bushes, rocks and figures around it and a vivid pink sky
Dawn Chorus
oil on canvas 50 cm x 40cm
tree-like ballerina on left, bridge leading into the distance where other figures dance on green tree-tops
Ballerinas and Bridges
oil on canvas 50 cm x 40 cm
pattern of green vegetation, transparent blue flowers and a few golden figures
Hunting the Wild Agapanthus
oil on canvas 84 cm x 91 cm

The Birds

young birds being fed by a multi-limbed tree-like figure
Fledglings
oil on canvas 50 cm x 60 cm
anthropomorphic raven hands an egg to a gold humanoid robot
Gift
oil on canvas 50 cm x 60 cm
colourful bushland landscape with feather-clad egg-seller carrying basket of eggs on their back
Heggler
oil on canvas 61 cm x 45 cm
startled white bird rising from ornate bird bath in a golden glow
Ritual Birdbath
oil on canvas 75 cm x 60 cm
multi-limbed purple creature snatching golden egg out of the air
Catching the Egg
oil on canvas 102 cm x 66 cm
raucous comic chickens riding in cartoon truck
Chickens in a Taxi
oil on canvas 122 cm x 91 cm
pale golden figures wandering through a surreal landscape
Hatching
oil on canvas 84 cm x 184 cm
Raven and Robot reaching a huge stone chicken on a tall column
Stone Chickens
oil on canvas 60 cm x 50 cm

Other Paintings

brown cliffs composed of faces and figures; a translucent white Tasmanian Devil skull and some delicate green and blue forest
Nature Walk
oil on canvas 91 cm x 112 cm
thumbnail - woman in white dress sitting in front of blue orchids
Orchids and Whales
oil on canvas 61 cm x 91 cm
colourful distorted landscape with battered shed and rusting junk, small yellow vase with lampshade in centre
Yellow Vase
oil on canvas 84 cm x 84 cm
Pink Flowers - oil on canvas 84 cm x 97 cm
Pink Flowers
oil on canvas 84 cm x 97 cm
woman with spiked beast on lead and man restraining huge leaping dog
Morning at the Dog Park
oil on canvas 61 cm x 75 cm
skeletal fashionistas riding mechanical horses
Off to the Races
oil on canvas 61 cm x 92 cm
mournful figures sitting in among rock pools in a barren brownish landscape
Waiting for Instructions
oil on canvas 61 cm x 91 cm
red painting with excited figure preaching to people looking at mobile phones
Storyteller
oil on canvas 82 cm x 66 cm
   


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