Gallery Art School Years

Outside Jerusalem

Following my Christian faith, I decided to depict a landscape scene from my imagination of what it might look like outside of Jerusalem.

Liberty I

My love of New York has been a lifelong fascination and so to continue experimenting with large format pixelation paintings, I created two images of the Statue of Liberty.

Jesus

This work is one of my first paintings where I used pixelation and colour to create a large format painting. Viewed from a distance it makes a more visible picture, but from close up, it appears as just squares.

Hell’s Heaven

This work is one of my first large paintings on unstretched calico. It depicts the vision of hell with a little slice of heaven in it. The green tree is a symbol of hope in an otherwise vast and destroyed…

Hand of God

I’ve always been fascinated with drawing hands. They’re one thing that I can do. I saw an image similar to this that inspired me to create this painting.

Flash

This portrait of my childhood cat growing up, I decided to try my hand at animal portraits and capturing a degree of realism for my work. In 2007, after his death, I decided to rework this piece, as it did…

Fence Post

This piece continues the landscape studies of McCahon in my collection. It is a tall, skinny mural that towers above the viewer, over two metres tall. The foreground is solidified with a fence that divides the viewer from the hills.…

Creation

Here I take the next step of building my love of the works of Colin McCahon. The text is blended with the landscape, with the sharp cubist lines and deep greens of the hills. There is a darkness to this…

Church

One of my first works that I sold at exhibition, this work depicts a typical country church in a vast landscape. This piece measures 1.9m across, and was created on calico, a thinner canvas. In a way, I was inspired…