Lemons and bowl

Oil on stretched canvas 30.5 x 40 cm Unframed $250

The odd sock!

Oil on plywood 65 x 95 cm Framed $850

I owe inspiration for this work in part to the Israeli artist, Avigdor Arikha.  Socks don't have much form but they are excellent shapes to play round with for creating a composition and they are a change from apples.

Tripping the light fantastic

Oil on stretched canvas 40.5 x 51cm Unframed $375

This painting refers to Sydney and all the wonderful things the city has to offer: theatre, dance, Gay Mardi Gra parade, Botanic gardens, Opera House, Harbour bridge, historic Rocks area, the library, Sydney Aquarium, Chinese New Year and China town.

The painting was part of an exhibition entitled "101 things we love about the Sydney CBD.

Snip

Oil on canvas 64 x 48 cm Framed $750

I find these different types of scissors are wonderful shapes, almost like birds: its hard not to see the blades as beaks and the screws as eyes.  I enjoyed designing this composition on the colourful tea towel.

Fleur's coffee cups

Oil on canvas 53.5 x 56.5 cm   Sold

I acquired these cups from my friend Fleur, a fellow artist.

I was attracted to their intense colour and the roundness of the forms in contrast to the strong diagonals of the fabric. I love the challenge of composition.  It is such an abstract activity whereby the negative shapes and shadows take on as much importance as the objects.

I admire the work of Margaret Preston.

Hence, the title is partly a nod to Preston’s “Thea Procter’s tea party” but also a reference to the domestic nature of the still life.
Finalist in the Cowra Regional Art Gallery: Calleen Art Award 2010(pdf) Click to download catalogue

Narratives

Oil on canvas  61x88 cm  Sold 

Finalist for the Mosman Art Prize 2009

I saw some paper cut out dolls at a friend's place made by her daughter and it struck me as such an evocative motif.  After several efforts with scissors and much snipping I made my own version and decided to arrange them so they appear to be dancing out of the book rather like a narrative.  Their repetitive shapes interested me as did the shadows made by the pages of the book.  The candle stick I thought looked rather like an authoritarian figure: a grand narrative in his own right and the wooden puppet sitting on the book is the audience.  That was my thinking on one level; on another, I liked the different whites of the candle, paper and wood which leads the eye around the composition.

Citrus

Grapefruit

Oil on stretched canvas 20 x 20.5 cm Unframed $90

Citrus with jug

Oil on stretched canvas 36 x 46 cm Unframed $250