This painting depicts an island as a metaphor for the mind - we would all love to own our own island; to be king of our own domain, but to be stranded in solitude upon a deserted isle is a castaway - I enjoy this concept for it's polar duality.
The pencil drawing of a house is what could be, your dreams or ambitions - a building that you yourself must construct.
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the Island series
This series began as a distillation of our own small New Zealand islands into an even smaller environment. The tableau's compress the interactions between the native wildlife and the colonial immigrants that became the new locals. Each island artwork varies in content but all hold the same concerns... That an island is a fragile ecosystem and each participant affects the overall health, resources and sustainability of that small environment