Abstract & Experimental

  • Bayonet Peak

    Artwork Description: Bayonet Peak is a favourite mountain on Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown Lakes, Southern New Zealand. When going down to Lake Wakatipu the mountain always commands a greeting. This painting was painted alla prima one afternoon, not noticing until much later that I had unconsciously painted a face on the mountain! The mountain resides in…

  • WFBR Radio

    Artwork Description: This drawing is part of the After Presence series, which explores abandoned architectural spaces as sites where memory and human traces continue to resonate. The works depict places once filled with activity: houses, cinemas, factories, schools, or hospitals, that now exist in silence and decay. Rather than presenting abandonment as emptiness, the series…

  • Passion Ascending

    Artwork Description: Presented as a gift to my wife Phyllis, Passion Ascending presents a playful celebration of the love and passion I hold for both my wife and my art. With a dominance of subdued hues and tones, Passion Ascending could be mistakenly viewed as a melancholic piece. Not so, rather I chose an expressive…

  • Caught between Heaven and Hell: an Autopictography

    Artwork Description: Caught between Heaven and Hell: an Autopictography is an autobiographical representation of my life in expressive abstractive form as a polyptych. Every panel within this polyptych, every shape, line, variation in hue, tint or chromatic intensity has meaning relating to the past or present, ‘the self’, ‘externalities’, interactions, memories, loss, emotions, and my…

  • The End of Love

    Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: ‘The End of Love’ seeks to convey the emotional state when love is lost, either through tragedy or the replacement of love and passion by loves opposite emotion: which is indifference. The monochromatic schizm, that divides dissected shapes of muted reds and fading yellows, pierced by antagonistic orthogonal shapes, lines…

  • I used to dream in colour….

    Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: I used to dream in colour…… The explosion of colour within the central panel of this polyptych ushers in a rush of youthful expectation and a sense of heightened excitement of things to come; only to give way to a mire of monochromatic forms representing the diminished and lost dreams…