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All  Artworks

Displayed here are artworks fresh from the studio and going back many years. As a new work is completed, it's added (see new work via the filter: New Artworks).

These original oil paintings depict islands in the Pacific Ocean as well as surround seas in a whimsical surreal environment that allows the viewer entry into an alternative narrative of our lived experience.

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A diptych of the stock gates from a saleyard, one stands empty while the other is crowded.

Gates 1 & 2

Exhibited: Stone's Throw, 91 x 38 cm each - diptych, oil on canvas, 2005, sold

The work of a farmer is to foster the animals within their care, to rear them, feed them and then send them to the works. Each painting in this theme displays the figure in a nurturing pose while each also holds a knife at their hip.

Guardian

Exhibited: Oilskin Armour, 90 x 90 cm, oil on board, 2007, sold

The middle section of a triptych from the early exhibition: Hunters and Consumers. The paintings together form a procession following a man carrying a wild pig out of the bush. The other paintings are titled: Trophy Hunter, The Guide (this) and Pighunter. They are all reunited in a reproduction titled: The Hunt.

Guide

Exhibited: Hunters & Consumers, 91 x 180 cm, oil on linen, 2008, sold

Another work in the food reference series, see also Rack of Lamb and Hereford Bull for more works that look at how we treat the things we eat.

Half a Side of Beef

Exhibited: Calloused Veneer, 120 x 34cm, mixed media on board, 2004, sold

A Tui as a fashion model, a poster child for our birds. around her neck is a white feather.

Harpy

Exhibited: The Popup Show, 91 x 84 cm, oil on linen, 2014 / 2024, sold

Lighthouses are human constructions, warning signals which help to prevent the destruction of travellers and the surrounding natural environment. Surrounding a Fairy Tern egg are an assortment of New Zealand lighthouses, all warding off any possible danger as well as bringing attention to the risk of extinction that is a real threat to these endangered birds.

Haven

Exhibited: For the Birds, 80 x 80cm, Oil on Panel, 2019, sold

Commissioned and utilized as an advertising poster for the America's Cup in Auckland 2003. The models are my parents-in-law A New Zealand couple enjoy a bottle of bubbles on the beach while watching racing on the Hauraki gulf with the Rangitoto Island seen on the horizon - a very New Zealand / Auckland image especially during America’s Cup

Hearts Racing

Exhibited America's Cup, oil on canvas, 2003, America's Cup commission

A very early painting of a herd as a wallpaper - abstracted reality.

Herd (the)

91 x 91 cm, oil on canvas, 2005, sold

A theme of many of my works is the nurture and care of, and the ultimately consumption of, cattle. This painting displays a Hereford bull in front, side and back technical drawing elevation with its body parts labeled as cuts of meat.

Hereford Bull

Exhibited: The Popup Show, 140 x 51 cm, oil on canvas, 2013, sold

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has the date of the Treaty of Waitangi in gold in the background. A well-known (and occasionally controversial) print. Commonly referred to as “the Queen with a Moko”. This is a positive expression of the blending of two cultures

Heritage

800 x 600mm, oil on board, 2018, sold

A Edwardian age home with extensive harbour views. The last of the sunset, creates a magical reflection for this timeless villa. It clings tenaciously to the island from which it sprouts. The landing claims privacy, access only at high tide or by large boat

Herne House

Exhibited: Island Nation, 99 x 73.5cm, Oil on Canvas, 2020, sold

A lone figure sitting upon a towel on the sand. There is something about old fashioned textured swimming cap and the ripples of the sand.

High Tide

60 x 70 cm, oil on board, 2015, sold

This is an illustration for a book (title: Hunting Lucky) cover written by Paul Michels

Hunting Lucky

61 x 91 cm, oil on canvas, 2016, commission

Oversized extinct New Zealand birds reside in the misty heights of this island bush/mountain scene. In the background a snowcapped mountain towers over waterfalls, a rural hut and grazing horses.

Hut (the)

Exhibited: Archipelago, 79 x 79 cm, oil on board, 2018

An imagined scene of the last of the New Zealand native birds migrating across a vast sky to find a new home. Our birds are leaving and they're taking their luggage. Birds shown are: Kea, Heron, Tern, Albatross and Parakeet. The threat of loss is portrayed by the eternal, horizonless sky with no landing place (none that is depicted) but with a hope for the future in the majestically coloured clouds - a dream state, a whimsy but also an aspiration for a better life. View “Rising up” for the companion piece to this artwork

In Flight

Exhibited: For the Birds, 100 x 75cm, Oil on Panel, 2019, sold

Portrait of a person whose likeness is hidden from view. What is shown is the weather-worn rural machines and buildings, but behind and through the broken windows, lies a beautiful snow-capped mountain range, part of a portrait concept where the figure being depicted stands guard over their interior world

Interior Landscape

Exhibited: Interior Landscape, 127 x 108 cm, oil on linen, 2006, sold

Portrait of a weather-worn, run-down house, but behind and through the dark doorway lies a beautiful snow-capped mountain range. This work is part of a portrait concept where there is a barricade between what is in front of you and an idealised beauty - the old house stands sentry over an interior world

Interior Landscape 2

Exhibited: Interior Landscape, 106 x 71 cm, oil on canvas, 2006, sold

A playful look at the blending of two cultures, each with their own specific traditions - very different from each other.. but similar too - Scottish and Maori, together in dance.

Island Fling

76 x 101 cm, enamel on canvas, 2014, sold

A couple together but each in their own worlds, hers a book, his a dream.

Journeys

150 x 50 cm, oil on canvas, 2003, sold

The Battlelines series attempts to be slightly impartial, the 'villain' a misunderstood creature. Here the Possum fights off a ‘squadron’ of birds as he clings to the sky tower. A tongue-in-cheek reference to the King Kong movie

King Possum

Exhibited: PAPER, 70 x 100 cm, oil and acrylic on watercolour paper, 2018, sold

The famous photograph of Einstein was apparently captured as he was tired of being photographed for his fame, his tongue sticking out was a small act of rebellion, a challenge. One of his quotes that I have carried with me is: "Imagination is more important than knowledge" and for this reason, I have claimed him as one of my own.

Kiwi Relativity

76 x 101 cm, enamel on canvas, 2014, artist collection

Early on in my painting I wanted to paint people but without the strict stipulation of capturing a likeness - I was after an inner likeness, a cultural portrait of my own people. Here are three regular guys in a minimal posture that describe their personalities.

Lads (the)

Exhibited: Stone's Throw, 112 x 35 cm, oil on linen, 2005, sold

Learning to fly means climbing to a high point and jumping off

Ladder (the)

120 x 110cm, oin on canvas, 2014, artist's collection

A New Zealand working dog, stands in anticipation of being released off the chain, as his master approaches.

Lair (the)

Exhibited: Calloused Veneer, 91 x 51 cm, oil on board, 2004, sold

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