Self Portrait as a Boat 2012 Enamel and polystyrene on canvas 450 x 300mm
When All Is Said And Done There Is Only Love 2009 Mixed media on canvas 900 x 900mm
Created before discovering melted polystyrene, this piece is built with glass that has been cooked in the camp fire, river sand, glitter and two different types of polyurethane. 2 years latter I discovered polystyrene and that now makes the frill around the edge!
Deep Sea Moki 2007 Mixed media on board 1040 X 850mm
An image of a Sea horse being driven in a race by a helmeted prawn, this piece is titled after the children's book 'Deep Sea Moki'. Built from acrylic, glass, sand, velvet and multimedia it is secured with urethane.
Ship Wreck, Souls rising 2007 Sand, urethane and acrylic on canvas 850 x 600 mm
The
material use here reflects the inherent quality of the form -
the water and the creatures in it.
The descending dolphin is created from river sand over an acrylic on canvas backing.
Souls rise up surrounded by the finest glitter representing physical body's transcending back into light. The poured urethane expresses the liquidity of the water, the way the materials are in keeping with the subject gives me deep pleasure.
The reflective materials in the work cause it to shift and change as you move past it and as the light changes. Just like the sea.
The descending dolphin is created from river sand over an acrylic on canvas backing.
Souls rise up surrounded by the finest glitter representing physical body's transcending back into light. The poured urethane expresses the liquidity of the water, the way the materials are in keeping with the subject gives me deep pleasure.
The reflective materials in the work cause it to shift and change as you move past it and as the light changes. Just like the sea.
KO TARARUA TE MAUNGA (The Tararua Mountains Are My Mountains) 2006 1000 x 795 x 75mm Bubble wrap, acrylic, enamel and tar
on canvas
Inspired by the view from my studio door I looked for a material to hold the expression of bush regrowth - short, scrubby, tufty. Bubble wrap! Perfect. I scrunched it into the valleys and ridges over a large strong canvas. I painted onto it with enamels, sprayed it back to gold, then poured the valleys with a tar based paint. I was studying Maori at the time. Learning how to belong myself with my land in a verbal way. So I tattooed my claiming of ‘my’ mountains across the sky. Ahh….Te Hei Maori Ora!
Water 2005 Glass, paint, glitter and urethane on board
1500 x1500mm
Both this and the below piece were inspired by an aerial view over the Canterbury Planes, New Zealand