Table Water Biscuit

Table Water Biscuit
Oil on gessoed board

90x90mm
$100

sold

Thin crispy biscuits baked golden brown for enjoying on their own or serving with a topping of your own choice.

Two Spears of Asparagus on a Plate

Two Spears of Asparagus on a Plate
Oil on gessoed board

190x190mm
$400
sold

Single Buttercup in Small Bottle

Single Buttercup in Small Bottle

Oil on gessoed board

130x100mm$200
sold

Dark Wine Bottle

Dark Wine Bottle
Oil on gessoed board
$150

sold

Yesterday I was in a black mood. I didn't really feel like painting, however I forced myself to do something and I actually felt a lot better for it. I'd be lost without painting.

Small Bowl of Lemons in the Sun

Small Bowl of Lemons in the Sun
Oil on gessoed board

170x165mm
$400
sold

Two Dandelions in Small Bottle

Two Dandelions in Small Bottle
Oil on gessoed board

130x95mm$130
sold

I seem to have an umber and yellow theme going on lately! These are all placed on my studio floor with the natural dark patina of the old timber floorboards. I normaly position my stillife subjects closer to me to paint. As I always stand while painting this was quite a distance for a small subject like this and it's a bit like seeing with a zoom lense rather than a macro. I'm always fascinated by the complexity of how we see. Both the physical miracle that is our eyes and the way our brains interprete all that information. It's a fallacy that any artist paints literally what they see. It's never that simple.

Lemons and Blue Glass Bottle

Lemons and Blue Glass Bottle

Oil on gessoed board
135x140mm

$250

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I occasionally enjoy taking a different technical approach to what I've grown accustomed to with my painting. I feel it's important to keep myself from becoming stale and mannered. Hopefully.

With these paintings I've initially put down a thin glaze of burnt umber as an imprimatura over the whole board, using a medium containing dammar and venice turpentine. This very quickly goes tacky and allows me to scumble cooler colours over the top and gives a warm glowing feeling to the picture that I believe suits the subject. The transparent areas give a nice contrast to the more thickly painted impasto parts. I enjoyed painting it anyway.

Four Lemons and an Orange

Four Lemons and an Orange
Oil on gessoed board
130x165mm

sold

Spot the odd one out...

Franz Kafka Sugar Sachet

Franz Kafka Sugar Sachet
Oil on gessoed board

100x133mm
$150

This was found in a box of junk. Apparently it is from the Franz Kafka Cafe. The absurdity of it appealed to me! Though according to this site on Coffee: "Prague café culture was a pivotal element of Kafka’s life and an inspiration to his writing."

Apple in Shadow Box

Apple in Shadow Box
Oil on gessoed board
185x150mm

$300
sold

There is this small rectangular opening cut into the heat resistant material surrounding the woodburner in my studio. On a whim I placed this apple in there and thought it looked good enough to paint.

Black Coffee Pot With Bowl of Oranges

Black Coffee Pot With Bowl of Oranges
Oil on gessoed board
100x125mm

$120

sold

Fragile Sticker

Fragile Sticker
Oil on gessoed board

100x145mm
$130

This was the reverse side of one of those dayglow "fragile" stickers. I guess we are all a bit fragile on the inside.

Army Man

Army Man
Oil on gessoed board
80x123mm

$200
sold

The proverbial unknown soldier. Caught in the light, fighting his own private battle. Is he crawling towards it, or away from it?

Another Dud

Another Dud

Oil on gessoed board
$100
sold

Two Crackers

Two Crackers
Oil on gessoed board

75x90mm
$130

Solo

Solo
Oil on gessoed board
90x75mm

$120

sold