Small Blue Bottle

Small Blue Bottle

 Oil on linen on MDF

130x100mm

 $150

D is For Dale

D is For Dale

 Oil  on MDF

246x246mm

 $500
sold

This is a postcard within a postcard or a painting within a painting if you like. The one pinned to the wall behind the bottles is from my colleague Marianne Muggeridge, and is a view of Mt Taranaki.  The yellow D on the childs block is my partner Dales's initial. There seemed to be a lot of male/female elements going  in this work and I toyed with the idea of calling it Anima Animus which is Jung's names for the male and female principle found in all of us. I can never remember which is which. A problem that only seems to get worse with age...

Arrangement of Old Bottles With the New IPad

Arrangement of Old Bottles With the New IPad

 Oil on MDF

200x200mm

NFS

It amused me when the first few people to see this painting thought the thumbprints were a "mistake".  I don't think I ever leave unintentional fingerprints on my paintings, while my Ipad is covered with them!  I actually use my fingers to paint with quite a lot. 

This may look like a mirror but if it was the bottles would be reflected. It's actually the photo feature and the mini camera is at the top so the bottles are not in the shot. The lifetime of the battery is about the same time it took to paint the picture.

New Arrangement of Old Bottles

New Arrangement of Old Bottles

200x200mm

Oil on  MDF 

NFS

This is one of a small series painted for an exhibition at Kina Gallery in New Plymouth.