What appears as a conventional landscape reading is a partial one for there remains much that is undisclosed. Despite my interest in place and the elemental aspects of weather, rocks, water and ice, the paintings become a negation of the actual experience, an obverse reflection, an act of disappearance and represent something other than what is there. This points to our ultimate failure to embrace or comprehend nature. Despite this the result of attempting to persist in identifying with the perceptions of an ever fleeting natural world may be a form of wisdom.
Bone Cloud Cold Ground (dying light). oil on canvas 85 cm x 92 cm 2023
"Arena (Incoming Shadow)" diptych oil on canvas 90 cm x 175 cm 2023
Dark Pond 2 (shadow script). oil on canvas 85 cm x 92 cm 2023
SHINING CLIFF (WITH TARN).
OIL ON CANVAS 145 CM X 175 CM. 2023
detail Shining Cliff (with tarn).
oil on canvas 145 cm x 175 cm. 2023
Exhibition Last Trace (pale ice dark light). Quiet Dog Gallery Nelson NZ
Courbet Green (light on the ridge). oil on canvas 140 cm x 175 cm 2023
Light and Air Before Rain (towards Mt Arnette). oil on canvas 102 cm x 112 cm 2023
Storm Light (Muller glacier). oil on board 65 cm x 65 cm 2023
High Wind Cold Ridge.
diptych oil on canvas 70 cm x 140 cm. 2023
Installation of Last Trace (Pale Ice Dark Light). Quiet Dog Gallery Nelson NZ 2023
Dark River Pond 2 (spectre).
oil on canvas 110 cm x 160 cm 2023
"DARK RIVER POND 1 (SPECTRE)" oil on canvas 110 cm x 170 cm 2023
Late Light (with radiant plume).
oil on canvas 110 cm x 160 cm 2023
EXHIBITION NEVER WALKING MOUNTAIN. QUIET DOG GALLERY NELSON 2020
SILENT (BLACK POND). OIL ON CANVAS 40 cm x 55 cm 2023
ELEMENTAL MOUNTAIN. OIL ON CANVAS 100 cm x 120 cm 2018
"light and air before rain (towards mt. Arnette)" oil on canvas 102 cm x 112 cm. 2020
"boundary (from the red tarn)"
oil on canvas diptych 101 cm x 183 cm 2020
"encrusted rock face (with moss and lichen)" oil on canvas 122 cm x 137 cm. with small panel. 2020
"never walking mountain" oil on canvas 85 cm x 100 cm 2020
"coastal cliff 1" oil on canvas 70 cm x 75 cm 2020