In a return to focus on art from New Zealand, in particular, Ralph Hotere, I began playing around with enamel and oil paints, creating layers and scratching away details to create the artwork. The use of text is always deliberate…
This is the second of internal views of a box that contains light. The text is created by printing out the words and then cutting them out with a knife before dabbing paint over the top. It’s not exactly handwritten,…
Following on from “Light Humbling“, this is the red version. “LIGHT. which ____ the darkness, but we have the light of life. Lead the way for the lost. Illuminate the soul.”
“Light of the World that they may see. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand that He may lift you up in due time. Let your light shine before men.”
“CRUCIFY HIM. But Jesus did not say anything. ‘I am not guilty of this mans death. You are the ones who are causing it. Clean Me. Are you the KING OF THE JEWS? Jesus answered ‘Those are your words.”“That old…
My first mixed media artwork, with acrylic and wire netting stretched over the top of it to exaggerate the juxtaposition of freedom. “FREEDOM Freedom. Free will. Glimpse. TASTE OF FREEDOM. A GLIMPSE. Yet restricted by what goes beyond. Unknown.”“FREEDOM. DREAMS…
Strips of canvas glued to a board allowed for a series of individual landscapes placed on top of each other. This method has been done by several artists and so I decided to give it a go myself, with poetic…
