One Live Match Head

One Live Match Head

oil on ceramic tile

24x24mm

 $80

A Vertical Match

A Vertical Match

Oil on ivory mounted on rosewood

 $120

Simple Mug With Dribble

Simple Mug With Dribble

$250

 Oil on linen on MDF

All my works are basicly autobiographical in nature...

Live Match on Blue

Live Match on Blue

Oil on Ceramic Tile

24x24mm

sold

Paper Match Propped on Glass Marble

Paper Match Propped on Glass Marble

Oil on linen on MDF

$120

On Edge

On Edge

Oil on linen on MDF

52x80mm

$100

Blue Match

Blue Match
54x47mm
Oil on gessoed museumboard 

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sold

Erect Match Standing in Blu-tack

Erect Match Standing in Blu-tack

Oil on cotton on MDF

62x69mm

$100

In a way this is a tribute to New Plymouth and our famous Wind Wand sculpture by reknowned international kinetic artist Len Lye.

It's also a homage to blu-tack.  I have recently been considering using blu-tack to "paint" with, however a cursory Google search reveals that like everything else I think of, it has already been done. This is one of the most thought provoking and stimulating sites on contemporary art I have viewed in recent years:   Worsley Institute of Blu-Tack Art

Crossed Live matches

Crossed Live matches

Oil on linen on card

57x80mm

$80
sold

A Couple of Single Objects

Live Match on Purple

Oil on linen on card

45x60mm

$80
sold

Small Wire Nail

Oil on linen n card

45x60mm

$100

sold

Burnt Out Match

Burnt Out Match
Oil on gessoed board
60x85mm

sold

Dead Rose in a Bottle

Dead Rose in a Bottle

Oil on linen mounted on MDF board
115x110mm

$150

sold

I've prepared a few small linen panels for a change of surface to my usual gessoed hardboard. There is really nothing that can compare to painting on linen, it's a joy to paint onto, and it encourages a different handling and application of the paint. At the meagre price I can sell these paintings for, I can't really justify the expense of linen, however I have a few offcuts from larger paintings that I can use.

Match With Straw

Match With Straw
Oil on gessoed board
60x95mm

$100

This was just a chance arrangement I spotted. I liked the sepentine movement of the dried grass straw against the static horizontal of the match. I guess you could kindle a fire with a match and enough straws.

Last Match

Last Match
Oil on gessoed board
$80

Cotton Bud and Match

Cotton Bud

Watercolour on Velin de Lana

95x130mm or 3.5x5"

$80

Diagonal Match
Watercolour on Velin de Lana
95x130mm or 3.5x5"

$80

Cotton Bud With Match
Watercolour on Velin de Lana
95x130mm or 3.5x5"

$80

I painted a cotton bud I'd been using to smudge pastel. I wasn't very happy with the first attempt so I abandoned it and started again resulting in the version at the top here. Then I went back to the earlier version and worked on it some more and added the balancing match. Then I felt like painting a match by itself.