Redefining Reality

My oil paintings and watercolours are a result of my numerous trips around New Zealand

and the back country of Taranaki.

Documenting the landscape makes up a large part of my personal work. I like to find interesting points of view in the “ordinary everyday that surrounds us”.

“In a past life” I spent 15 years teaching in the Art Department at Western Institute of Technology, …

Paintings are painted Plein Air (on location), or in my studio in the managers office of the old BNZ Bank in Eltham from various references and memories. They are painted “Alla Prima” - wet-on-wet” and in direct painting style.The source material is endless and I am continuing to document the landscape around me. I have also produced a number of commissions over the last couple of years.