Little Black Dog
70 x 90cm
Walking my little black dog daily around the beautiful park and wetlands near my house is a wonderful way to keep the other black dog at bay. It mostly works.
Eucalyptus – 100 Eucalypts of South Australia
70 x 100cm
Surrounding the iconic River Red Gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, are patterns representing each of the 100 South Australian species of eucalyptus, including both scientific and common names. Finalist 2022 Adelaide Hills Landscape Prize, Best in Category Walkerville Art Prize.
Eucalyptus – 100 Eucalypts of South Australia – detail
100 Forests
70 x 100cm
This drawing was inspired by the hundred forests of endangered trees which have been planted at the National Arboretum in Canberra. I’ve included the names and a design element to represent each type of tree, along with some tree related quotes and sayings. The central image is an elm they have in their bonsai collection, which is famous in bonsai circles. I drew this during the first COVID lockdown, when I really should have been working on other things, and so have included 19 crows (corvids) to represent when it was drawn.
100 Forests – detail
32 plus 6
60 x 85cm
This drawing includes an element representing each of the thirty-two named parks and six squares which make up the Adelaide Parklands, with Karrawirra Parri, the River Torrens, running through them. Finalist 2021 Adelaide Parklands Art Prize.
32 plus 6 – detail
50 Owls
90 x 70 cm
Murmuration Number One
70 x 100
Murmuration refers to the phenomenon when hundreds, sometimes thousands, of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns. The groups can number up to as many as 50,000. This way of moving misleads and confuses predators. During the first COVID lockdown, although I had a lovely project that I should have been, and really wanted to be, working on, I simply couldn’t make myself focus on it. I became preoccupied with drawing black birds – Corvids or, more correctly, Corvidae. A Corvid is a member of the passerine bird family Corvidae, which includes crows, magpies, jays, rooks and ravens. In some cultures Corvids are a symbol of death, but in others they represent change and transformation.
Ephemerant – Night
70 x 100cm
One of a pair of drawings commissioned by ‘Villa Ban Lakkham’, boutique hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos. Laos is known as ‘The Land of a Million Elephants’, the elephant being traditionally scared to the Lao people. This design plays with the idea of the circle of life and passing time. Night/day, dark/ light, yin/yang, earth/air. Elephants seem in some ways to embody time, like old Man Time and Mother Earth rolled into one.
Ephemerant – Night
70 x 100cm
One of a pair of drawings commissioned by ‘Villa Ban Lakkham’, boutique hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos. Laos is known as ‘The Land of a Million Elephants’, the elephant being traditionally scared to the Lao people. This design plays with the idea of the circle of life and passing time. Night/day, dark/ light, yin/yang, earth/air. Elephants seem in some ways to embody time, like old Man Time and Mother Earth rolled into one.
Drop in the Ocean
100 x 70cm
This drawing incorporates many of the sea and animal species found on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula. Also woven in are quotes about the ocean environment.
