i like to be a secret
2010
oil and pencil on canvas
80x100cm
POA
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did i dream you dreamed about me?
2009
oil on canvas
100×120 cm
POA
Song to the Siren – Tim Buckley
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, ‘touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, o my heart shies from the sorrow’
conversations in a room
2009
oil on canvas
100×120cm
This is a commissioned painting, just about finished when this picture was taken. I was asked for something red with a cat in it.
It’s a bit dodgy looking because I took the photo on a dinky digital point-and-shoot under crap light conditions and used photoshop to clean it up.
The title came from a conversation with a friend about schizophrenia. We were talking about hearing voices, how they muttered away in the background while you’re going about your life, as though you were hearing a conversation in a room that went wherever you did. I thought that suited this image nicely.
the perilous crossing of the great mark-maker
2008
oil on canvas
50×70cm
POA
last of the secular days
2008
oil on canvas
40×60cm
NFS
Originally part of a larger painting that progressively went nowhere, I tore up the canvas and focussed on this section and it developed its own story.
the magus at home
2008
oil on canvas
60×76cm
POA
The Magus: a magician, holy man and sun worshipper.
reconstruction/sleep
oil on 5″×7” canvas boards
2007
POA
the waiting room
2005
Oil on Canvas.
150×100cm
Two years of work, on and off. I gotta learn how to paint faster.
This photograph was taken before the image was finished. The lady is now much more modestly covered.
the shadow
1999.
Oil on Canvas.
90×70cm
This painting doesn’t exist anymore, it was destroyed before I moved to Melbourne. I have tried several times to recreate it, to no avail. Another painting, “The Magus at Home”, uses the same source material.
cartwheel
1998
oil and conte on canvas.
120×90cm.
This image popped up into my head as I was dozing on a hammock in Saigon. I was reading Carl Jung’s “Man and His Symbols” at the time.
the drift
1997
oil on board
170×140cm
a painting that taught me to paint, after having done three years of printmaking.