'After the Trees': my recent work at Potocki Paterson Art Gallery until April 9

After the Trees: White Vessels 2015  Mixed media on board, 37x37cm SOLD

After the Trees: Red Vessels 2015  Mixed media mounted on board, 37x37cm SOLD

After the Trees: Man Made Landscape   2015-16  

Encaustic, oil stick, gold leaf, verdigris on mounted board 22x17cm SOLD. 

After the Trees: Rock and Metal   2015-16  

Encaustic and other media on mounted board 22x17cm  SOLD. 

After the Trees: Steel and Wood   2015-16  

mixed media on mounted board 22x17cm   SOLD. 

After the Trees: wood and Steel   2015-16  

mixed media on mounted board 22x17cm   SOLD. 

After the Trees: A Viable Landscape?   2015-16  

Acrylic and verdigris with acrylic casting on mounted

water-colour board   22x17cm   SOLD. 

After the Trees: Ancient Landscape  2015-16  

Acrylic and silver leaf on mounted board   22x17cm   SOLD. 

After the Trees: Dry Earth  2015-16  

Acrylic, shellac, sand, mica, verdigris on mounted board   22x17cm   SOLD. 

After the Trees: Drought  2015-16  

Acrylic, shellac, cardboard relief with verdigris, 

encaustic and gold leaf on mounted board   22x17cm   SOLD. 

After the Trees: Building Blocks   2015-16  

Encaustic, letterpress and other media on mounted board 22x17cm  SOLD. 

Dry Landscape    2015 

         Cast encaustic and mixed acrylic media on board 32x32cm  SOLD

  

Time Exists Not of Itself    2015    

Encaustic with oil stick, gold leaf, sand, acrylic emulsion on mounted plywood  20x60cm  SOLD

The Nature of Things: Chaos  2015 

Acrylic emulsion, sand, verdigris, collage, encaustic,

     oil paint on board with recycled frame, 14x37.5cm    SOLD       

The Nature of Things: Scale  2015 

Acrylic emulsion, sand, verdigris, collage, encaustic, 

     oil paint on board with recycled frame 14x36cm  SOLD  

One Square Foot:  Driftwood    2015-16  
Mixed media    SOLD

One Square Foot:  Seaweed    2015-16  
Mixed media    SOLD

Wellington Exhibition

Exhibition in March

I've been working hard over the past few months to complete work for an exhibition at PotockiPaterson Art Gallery in Wellington, March 17 - April 9;  flyer will follow soon.

Below are two of these works.

             After the Trees (Red Vessels)    2015     
  Acrylic, oil, pigment, rust, verdigris, encaustic,
oil stick and gold leaf cardboard reliefs
on composition board    37x37cm

‘Quicker Marred Than Made’        2016   
Acrylic, verdigris, rust, gold leaf, acrylic castings,
letterpress, cardboard relief on mounted plywood     20x60cm

Looking at Rocks

After the Trees: Landscape
210x170mm 2015-16
Acrylic media and metals 

After the Trees: Rock and metal
210x170mm 2015-16
Acrylic media, metal and wax

  

The rocky cliffs that enclose the curving shores of Waiheke Island's beautiful bays are a source of inspiration in my work; they are a perfect metaphor for the passage of time.  In his poem 'On the Nature of Things' written in the last century BCE, Lucretius Carus reflecting on the evidence of time wrote...

"Stones are also conquered by Time,

  ...  lofty towers ruin down

and boulders crumble ..."

Over the past 14 years I have holidayed annually at Waiheke Island and am always drawn to the rocks. I've sketched them, photographed them - film and digital, made many paintings of them over the years in oils, acrylic and more recently in encaustic, and this year I made castings from them for use in my current project.  Above are two images from this body of work.

One Square Foot

                

                

           

One Square Foot: Driftwood;  One Square Foot: Leaves;   One Square Foot Shells;      One Square Foot: Seaweed

205-2016. Media:   Each work is 150x280mm

On the beach at Waiheke Island about a year ago I chose one square foot of beach and collected whatever was on it. Last year I made some encaustic castings of these objects and tucked them away. When I came across them recently I decided to make some little wooden boxes to install them in. I put a bronze patina on the wood then painted tiny landscapes using various acrylic media with sand and silver leaf to go above.