Connection, as opposed to oblivion
40 x 30 cm
Charcoal, Ink and Oil paint on Canvas
2025
A painting born from a collage excercise, incorporatin layers of charcoal and ink, with oil paints glazed over the top.
Sunsetted Vestige
61 x 61 cm
Oil Paint on Wooden Board
2025
Sunsetted Vestige captures the memory of ‘Australia’s most endangered butterfly’, the Australian Fritillary, a butterfly last seen in 2005. Lightly perched upon its primary food source; Viola Betonicifolia, the butterfly is partially illuminated by the setting sun, as a metaphor for the end of existence intertwined with the hope of its return.
That which cradles the fading (these hands of mine)
40 x 40 cm
Oil paint on Canvas
2025
A representational self-portrait featuring a rainbow lorikeet gently grasped between two hands, presented in an ambiguous expression and pose that indicates stillness. Drawing inspiration from childhood memory and sequences, the image plays with the experiences of talking to the lorikeets when I was lonely, and trying to rescucitate the birds that would drown or be drowning in the horse troughs, as a representation of the inner child and mental health issues.
The Anarchy of Alchemy
51 x 76 cm
Acrylic and Botanical Lake Pigment Oil Paint on Canvas
2025
A journalistic still-life collage drawing on the processes and materials of my endeavour to create my own oil paint from botanicals. Referencing Pop-Art, Impressionism and Surrealism, the artwork depicts the method to the madness of cretaing pigments out of the very flowers included; Eremophila (Emu Bush), and includes the resulting pigment as the creamy-ligth ochre colour.
