FROM THE HEART - An artistic response to the heart of Australia (2020)
The works in this collection are the result of a trip I made to Central Australia in September 2019. They fall into three groups:
The first is a little series I’ve called ‘Postcards from …’ These are postcard-sized watercolour paintings, like snapshots, from a variety of places I visited during the course of that time away.
The second is a collection of miniature watercolour paintings on Yupo paper. They’re very different from my postcard series, especially in colour. I’ve always seen the Australian outback in two distinct colour palettes. There are the beautifully soft, almost faded-looking colours captured so perfectly by artists like Hans Heysen and Albert Namatjira, and then there are the strikingly intense colours that really blow your mind when you see them for the first time. My Yupo paintings belong in this second category.
My third group of paintings are mostly larger pieces and a bit of a mix. Some are in the first, softer outback palette I’ve described above, while others incorporate a much bolder palette. Many have a brush-swept edge to them and incorporate the use of dots - a subtle tribute to the work of the Aboriginal artists of the outback.
Unless noted otherwise, the paintings below are available for purchase. Please drop me an email.
MOON OVER GLEN HELEN GORGE - SOLD
Image area: 250 x 375 mm
FINKE GORGE I - SOLD
FINKE GORGE III - SOLD
OUTBACK ON YUPO XI - SOLD
Image area 140 x 60 mm
SIMPSONS GAP - SOLD
Image area: 190 x 275 mm
OUTBACK ON YUPO V - SOLD
Image area 140 x 60 mm
OUTBACK ON YUPO VIII - SOLD
Image area 140 x 60 mm
GLEN HELEN GORGE (PANO) - SOLD
Image area: 185 x 400 mm
OUTBACK ON YUPO X - SOLD
Image area 140 x 60 mm
OUTBACK ON YUPO III - SOLD
Image area 60 x 140 mm
OUTBACK ON YUPO VI - SOLD
Image area 140 x 60 mm
POSTCARD FROM … FINKE GORGE - SOLD
Image area: 100 x 150 mm
POSTCARD FROM … GOSSE BLUFF - SOLD
Image area: 100 x 150 mm
POSTCARD FROM … JUNCTION WATERHOLE - SOLD
Image area: 100 x 150 mm
POSTCARD FROM … CENTRAL AUSTRALIA II - NA
Image area: 150 x 100 mm
OUTBACK ON YUPO II - SOLD
Image area 60 x 140 mm
GLEN HELEN GORGE REFLECTIONS - SOLD
Image area: 260 x 180 mm
NEW DAY AT GLEN HELEN GORGE - SOLD
Image area: 180 x 260 mm
GLEN HELEN GORGE - SOLD
Image area: 165 x 245 mm
DAWN OVER GLEN HELEN GORGE - SOLD
Image area: 400 x 185 mm
RETURNING FROM JUNCTION WATERHOLE - SOLD
Image area: 215 x 160 mm
GOSSE BLUFF FROM TYLERS PASS LOOKOUT - SOLD
Image area:: 145 x 200 mm
THE ROAD TO ORMISTON GORGE
Image area: 215 x 160 mm
VISITING BRUMBIES - SOLD
Image area: 140 x 60 mm