Just because...

SENSE OF SHELL

Acrylic on canvas
Approx 50x70cms.
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The title and the painting allude to the pressures on many women to look and be a certain way. We often hide our true selves beneath an assumed carapace: a protection, a more acceptable disguise perhaps, in spite of the fact that we are actually lovely and loveable as ourselves.

STRESSES OF SYMBOLISM, SEX AND RELIGION

Acrylic on canvas
Approx 76x102 cm
Framed

$2,500

The painting speaks for itself: Circling around the central nude of a seated, long-haired woman with bowed head are; the parted triangles of the Jewish Star of David; battered crosses of Christianity; sullied Islamic crescents; spheres of Gaia; silken textures of Eastern religions; an open-jawed mythic fish; phallic symbols; sperm and ovum; symbols of the masculine and feminine; symbol of homosexuality; profiles of gravid women; crosses and ticks of judgments; colours and textures of earth, sea and
sky...

Painting Details

HOLD FAST - THE COLOURS RUN

detail

Acrylic and pencil on canvas
2008

NFS

LEAVE - TAKING

Acrylic on canvas
30.5x61cm
2006

NFS

Acrylic and river sand on canvas
approx 50x30cms,
1996
NFS

JUXTAPOSITION

ANZAC

Acrylic on canvas
20x20cms,
2008

(a study for my final painting 'FOUR SEASONS: GALLIPOLI')

FISHERMAN

Acrylic on canvas
22x34cms,

NFS

SYMPHONY

Framed and donated to raise funds for Sydney Philharmonia:

It combines original ink drawing and monotype - a technique I am just experimenting with and very much to enjoy!

I was thinking of Beethoven's life and modern music - how much gained and how much lost...

TRANSFIGURATION

acrylic on canvas,
41x 122cms

$3500 framed

Whether for glory or catastrophe, all existence is ephemeral. Being means change. Triumph and horror resonate with the echoes of creation and destruction of all things man-made, natural. WHO is to say the geometric forms of modern skyscrapers possess a less valid right of existence than the architectural formations of nature’s crystals? Ultimately the scouring clouds of time will see all broken and returned to its base elements, regardless.

GUNS and GIRL

Acrylic, ink and gold dust on canvas,
50x70cms

$1750 framed

A girl-child discards her cuddly toy to follow visions of lipstick-gold guns offering a path to perceived power and glory. The reality of her cradled machine gun is brutal, phallic and jarringly inappropriate given the fragility and innocence/ignorance of her youth.