Art Works

Selected Paintings

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THE RESORT COLLECTION

DIVE into an imagined world of pools and palm trees

The Resort Collection takes you on holiday, inviting you to dive into my imagined world of pools, palm trees and sun-drenched cocktails.

Shaken, Not Stirred, Oil on PolyCotton, 61 x 30.5cm - Nearly finished

My beautiful boy, not a boy anymore but a big-hearted, ever-so-stylish man

Golden Girl, Oil on PolyCotton, 102 x 76cm, 2025 - Sold

Gillian, my exuberant, sparkling, ebullient friend has an enthusiasm for life that cannot be matched

Sun Blessed Privileged White Boys, Oil on PolyCotton, 102 x 76cm, 2025

My beautiful nephews Tim and Jack posed for this portrait painting of middle class identical twins in their teenage prime.  Blonde, bronzed, muscular and fit. They are the blue-eyed, blonde-haired ideal of white Australia? They will never know the struggle for equal rights or have to fight for acceptance. Sexisim and racism are foreign terms to them. They are sun-blessed, privileged, white and male.

Poolside Pooch, Oil on PolyCotton, 76 x 76cm, 2025 - Sold

Ralphy, my sisters delightful creature, this is the second painting I have done of him. While photographing my nephews (above) Ralphy wanted to be in on the act and he quite enjoyed the sunglasses.

Sun Blissed, Oil on PolyCotton, 76 x 76cm, 2025

The first of my new series. This painting represents a significant moment of healing and celebration in my life.  I have chosen to embrace the light and sun-filled joy of simply being. To invite a sense of summer and vitality to this self portrait.

Beach Babe, Oil on PolyCotton, 76 x 76cm

Little Polly collecting shells in between surfing lessons


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THE VENICE COLLECTION

Basilica Venezia, Oil on Canvas, 122x102cm, 2024

On a recent visit to Venice I witnessed the Basilica of San Marco in all its blinding, sunlit, water-reflected magnificence.  I wanted to paint how it seemed to appear then disappear because of the blinding sun intensified by the reflecting high water.

Venice's Basilica silently shouting to be saved from Global Warming.

 

Il Papa, Oil on Canvas, 40x35cm, 2024 - SOLD

Inspired by Giacomo Manzù’s bronze Cardinale housed at Ca’ Pesaro, Venice. This sculpture was severely damaged in the 2019 Aqua Alta floods and was only just restored when I saw him. I could imagine him bobbing up and down along the Grand Canal. The sleek lines and aerodynamic flow of the sculpture as well as its stern authority caught my eye and I just had to paint him.

Pink Palazzo, 76x152cm, 2024 - Unavailable

When I think of Venice I often think of it in Pink. The Tuscan and Coral Pinks of its Venetian Gothic Architecture and of course the rose glass in its Art Nuevo styled lamp posts. Often a pink sunset appears and reflects in its canals and watery walk ways. Its elegant decaying structures encased in crimson hues.

 

THE VANITY SET

Invisible Woman, Oil on Canvas, 76×76cm, 2024

I painted this work as a literal translation of the middle-aged woman’s fear of being inconsequential, irrelevant - INVISIBLE, except for her hands which are always working, building, creating, taking care of everyone else.

Nurse Pain, Oil on canvas, 76×76cm, 2024

She’s a hardened, nasty piece of work. Enjoys inflicting pain on her vain ridden clients. “Beauty is Pain” she says.

THE ROUNDS

Actor Paul Blackman, Oil on Wood Round, 30cm - Sold

Dancer Leigh Warren and Jezabel, Oil on Wood Round, 60cm - Unavailable

Music Diva Anne Wiberg, Oil on Wood Round, 30cm - Unavailable

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