Wind Across the Ridgeline.
watercolour on paper 100 cm x 250 cm 2011
DETAIL Wind Across the Ridgeline. watercolour on paper 100 cm x 250 cm 2011
NATURE STUDIES (BONES AND MIST). WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER 2014
In emulation of 19th century explorers, surveyors, amateur adventurers and artists, the mapmaking and topographical images begin as sheets of paper joined together with surgical tape and kept in a mappers pad whilst travelling. In the retrieval of visual cues all made of elements from direct observation there is no perception that is too small or mundane not to invite close attention. My work ranges from large scale paintings to works on paper and over scale books, and are often accompanied by vitrines containing models, hermetic maps and fragment like relics. With a close, disciplined observation of the natural world these works are signs of passing, a camp site left existing only in the travellers memory. My work begins with the simple act of walking and concerns events perceived while walking, with responses to the terrain of the southern alpine regions of New Zealand.
FAR CRY NO VIEW 1 (tracing the source). WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER book 55CM X 650 CM 2011
DETAIL FAR CRY NO VIEW 2. BOOK WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER 55CM X 860 CM 2022
FAR CRY NO VIEW 2. BOOK WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER 55CM X 860 CM Suter Gallery 2022
DETAILS FROM TRACING THE SOURCE BOOK WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER
55 CM X 650 CM 2010
GREEN TEA. WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER DIPTYCH 180 CM X 244 CM 2010
GREEN TEA. WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER DIPTYCH 180 CM X 244 CM 2010
TRACING THE SOURCE.
BOOK WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER
55 CM X 650 CM 2010
NATURE STUDIES - LICHEN ON WAITING ROCK.
WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER 90CM X 150 CM 2014
MOUNTAIN INKSTONE.
WATERCOLOUR 100 cm x 140 cm 2011
nature studies (cloud terrace) remembering Yuan Yau.
watercolour on paper 100 cm x 130 cm 2014