This is my home ground!! The place of much happiness and beauty. Just lately I have been using a palette knife for most of my work and loving the difference, the challenge of the new!
Lion Island – My view with last light 50×60 oil/knife 50×60 The paperbarks in Diamond Ave Oil/KnifeLion Island, Storm clouds Oil/KnifeBox Head after storm Oil/KnifeA profusion of Banksias, Oil/Knife
Trees at Menindi Oil/KnifeMy View Lilac sundown Oil/KnifeKnifeplay Kimberley Oil/KnifeKnifeplay Bromeliads oil/KnifeFlannel flowers everywhere Here at top of PearlieOilWalk to Flathead Beach at sundown Oil/ SOLDPainted during looming storm Oil/KnifeThe Creek breaks through to the beach again Oil/KnifeTrawlers resting at Patonga OilSaturday’s race around Lion Island out of Pittwater – Encaustic 120 x 120cmSOLD
Perfect Balance, Top of Mt. Ettalong OilLion Island – OilView to Boudi from Green Point, Pearl Beach, Oil
Perfect balance Oil/Palette knifeFifteen views out my window Oil
Childs play in the lagoon Oil SOLDThe creek near the bridge, fallen trees Oil/P
Tumbled Rocks 80×80 Oil SOLDHorizontal Falls, Kimbolton 92×92 Oil framed. SOLD
The experience of a Kimberley cruise from Darwin to Broome is on the bucket list of many retirees and so it was on mine. It was magical and exciting, day after day. My new works are inspired by the Kimberley’s colour of the water and the towering and tumbling rocks, the reflections in that lucid water, the waterfalls, the excitement of being under them, the birds and the crocodiles. It is indeed a vast archaelogical paradise, an unspoilt wilderness, where we left nothing but our footprints, to be washed way by the huge tides. Adventurers and grey nomads have always loved the colourful outback of the Kimberley as well, all the gorgeous gorges along the Gibb River Road, the Bungles, the Ord River and Lake Argyle are some of the favourites. As a couple John and I traversed all these places, weeks at a time, setting up our tent and then John riding his bike whilst I stood before my easel painting ‘en plein air’. Back home I painted larger works in acrylics and oils and now in Encaustic as well. Even now I create new works from my photos of those trips.
The Bungle Bungles 80×90 AcrylicHunter River Hills 160×112 OilSandstone Symphony 76×76 OilExtreme Tide Lines 76×76 Oil SOLDFlyng to Lake Eyre 95×80 Oil Boab Country at the Cockburn RangesTumbled to the Right,Talbot Bay 76×76 OilOne of Two King George River Waterfalls 90×60 OilMangrove reflections, Porosus Creek, North Kimberley Marine Park 80×80 OilNature’s Composition, Talbot Bay 76×76 OilWest Macs near glen Helen160x112 oilMangrove reflections, Porosus Creek, North Kimberley Marine Park 92×92 Oil Kimberley Waters Oil 90×60 Willy Creek Pearl Farm 64×54 OilMesas On the Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary Road 90×60 OilRoebuck Bay, Broome 64×54 OilHome Valley Station Acrylic 80×90The Pilbara Hills Acrylic 80 x90The Pilbara Treescape Oil 80×90Ancient Boab, Wyndham 68×64 OilTide’s out, Broome 68×64 OilCockburn Ranges 64×54 OilBoab, Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary 58×68 OilOrd River Ride 62×54 Acrylic SOLDCloudscape over Cockburn Range 95×85 Oil/Cold WaxWorld’s View, Gibb River Road 80×90 Acrylic SOLDCape Leveque 64×54 Oil/Cold waxAerial view of Bungle Bungles painted with crushed ochres 85×70 framedGeikie Gorge Watercolour$795.00 SOLDCape Leveque 64×54 oilBox Head, Pearl Beach 64×53 EnausticThe Bungle Bungles 91×40 oilThe Bungle Bungles $1500 80×90 Acrylics/SOLDMangrove shoots, oil, 50×90Joe’s Picnic Place, Victoria River acrylic 152 x 50Reflections of the Mangroves Encaustic 64×66Gantheaum Pt, Broome oil 61×49 oilOrd Riverscape61x49 oil SOLDVictoria river cruise 68×64 oilThe Wall, Kings Canyon 80×90 oilStandley Chasm 90×80 oil
For more OUTBACK paintings from my exhibition click here and ENCAUSTICS click here
When we speak of trees, I wear my heart on my sleeve. Then I paint them ….to share with you what I see. It is not only their amazing colours and textures, those of trunk and leaves in their season, it is the realisation that so much of heir bounty is shared with us.
An ever changing exhibition of tree paintings completed plein air on site in bush land and bays – mostly around the Central Coast, but also inland Australia. I am passionate about trees and the various roles they play in our lives and in their own habitat.
Favourite Paperbark oil 80×90 $1500My spotted gum 110×100 oil $1700Waratahs and Scribbly Gum Acrylic 105×75 $1700 SOLDThe Wedding Tree oil 50×60 $895Bunya Pines 84×48 oil $995For love of trees oil 80×90 $1500 SOLDGuardians t the gate oil 52×51 $695Mornington Sanctuary, Kimberley 80×90 oil $1500Pink light at the stream oil 50×60 $795Mallee gums at Mungo 45×55 oil $695Dorothy’s angophora 74×44 acrylic $795Forest giants side by side oil 60×90 $1200 Blue Mts Paintings Tiny tot grass tree oil 30×30 $395Fagan Park, East Gosford 53 x 53 oil $695Old Fig over Brisbane Water 53 x 53 oil $695Heron in the Mangroves, Bensville 53 x 53 oil $695Whirlwind oil 60×90 $1300Grouped TreesAngo[hora on Mt. Ettalong 80×90 oil $1500Outback treesArboretum TreesMullet Creek treesChoreography I 45×70 oil $895Coastal palms oil 44×74 $795Rhythm of the trees 41×56 oil $795 SOLDPalm Grove at the Pleasance oil 60×50 $795Marijke painting in the Arboretum en plein airRed Forest giants 84×115 encaustic$2500 SOLDWhere th stream turns oil 60×90 $795Flannel flowers 122×50 $1500 OilDRESS Rehearsal, Mt. Ettalong80x90 Oil $1500The forest floor turns pink oil 60×90 $1200 SOLDThe big white gum in the wetland 80×60 oil $995Dark Pond 120×120 oil $1900S SOLDMurray river gums II w/c 60×49 $795Forest at Warrawee 80×90 oil $1500Murray river gums I w/c 60x 49 $795 Tree Fern Forest 79×83 acrylic $1400Boabs at Winjana Classic Face 58×68 oil $895River red gum Mt. Gipps 84×97 $1700 SOLDMangroves at Phegans Bay 43×86 oil $995Angophora Bush Ballet 50×124 $1700Shedding Oil 84×64 $1300Dark stream Arboretum 60×90 $1200Choreography Blue oil 80 x 90 $1500Mixed flowersBoab Sir John Gorge 58×68 $895Water glory highlights oil 49×71 $995Recumbent 65×85 oil $1200Red Trees Pemberton Encaustic120x90 $2500 SOLDWaratahs Ocean View SOLDBanksias Oil SOLD
For more FLOWER paintings from my exhibition click here and ENCAUSTICS click here
