Monarch

A Neighbour’s Legacy

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Floral, Sold, Splatter

A neighbour, in a street near where I live, has always had the most magnificent poppies in spring, for as long as I can remember. I don’t know if she just loves them or they have a more significant meaning for her, but these poppies have always brought me so much joy, year after year. This is a tribute to her legacy, and her beautiful poppies.

This is a part of my splatter paint series. 
Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw pain on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me. 

Acrylic On Canvas
61 x 61cm

SOLD

Monarch’s of Hope

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Floral, Originals For Sale, Splatter

This is a part of my splatter paint series. 
Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw pain on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me. 
Framed by me in a painted white Tassie oak floating frame.

Acrylic On Canvas
74.3x 74.7 cm canvas
77.1. x 77.6 cm with floating frame

$1150

Summer

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Floral, Sold, Splatter

A set of 3 commissions. 
The request was to represent seasons. Spring completed previously. 
This one is Summer. A central Australian summer. 
This is a part of my splatter paint flower series.

Acrylic On Canvas
73 x 73.5cm

SOLD

Too Much

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Floral, Sold

Too Much (Lego figures included)?I know I can be too much.Sometimes I feel too much, cry too much, think too much, worry too much, talk too much, hurt too much.I know this painting is too much, but do you know what…it was really fun to paint, to play, to include Lego figures, to cause it to be too much.Sometimes I don’t like being me, because of my “too much”.But God has made me an open book for a reason 😉I also care too much and love to much, so it ain’t all bad.

This artwork is framed (lovingly made by me) in a painted white Tasmanian oak floating frame.

Acrylic On Canvas
74 x 74.5 cm canvas
76 x 76.5 cm with floating frame

SOLD

I Don’t Care

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Floral, Sold, Splatter

This is a part of my splatter paint series. 
Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw paint on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me.

As an artist I long to please, to have others like what I do, to value it, to be accepted; but this isn’t always good for the soul. Sometimes we must create with no one else in mind, but to paint what is in our soul, without caring if it is liked, valued or accepted. To be purely free to be me…letting go of the expectations of others is good for the soul.

I Don’t Care: because I care too much.

Since finishing this painting I have added to it. I was watching a cockatoo, while on my morning walk and was struck by their audacity. They have this amazing care free attitude that I thought perhaps I could learn from. This one on this particular day, it was covered in mud, and it was having a feed on the nature strip and totally living its best life. It didn’t care less about me, I walked quite close to it and it just one about its breakfast, keeping a vague eye on me, but really not to bothered by my interest in it, definitely not bothered by it being covered in mud. Maybe I could learn something from the audacious cockies.

Acrylic On Canvas
76 x 76 cm canvas

Framed.

$1150

SOLD

Daisy Fields

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Floral, Sold

This is a part of my splatter paint series.
Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw paint on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me.

This artwork is framed (lovingly made by me) in a painted white Tasmanian oak floating frame.

Acrylic On Canvas
74.5 x 74 cm canvas
77.5 x 77 cm with floating frame

SOLD

This is Life (Blue Butterflies)

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Mixed Media, Sold, Splatter

This is a part of the “This is Life” series of paintings… Sometimes the troubles of this life accumulate on me, overwhelming me and overcoming me and I want a break, I want it to stop, to ease up, for the burdens and the pains to be lifted. But do you know what…this is life. It is easy to look around and think that others have it easier than we do, and sometimes that is true, but sometimes it isn’t, the pains of this life are hidden so often by a facade, that make us believe that it should be easier than it is.My family has had a run of one disaster after another, over the past six months, but amongst that there is beauty, there is joy and there is hope.This painting has been about adapting, healing the past, looking toward hope, but seeing joy in the day to day, in the weeds that have abounded in the rain, in the rain itself, in the birds that wake me in the morning. When I stop and listen, moment by moment, I can keep putting one foot in front of another and enjoy the journey.

Mixed media on linen canvas
50.8 x 76 cm

Tasmanian oak (painted white) floating frame
53.8 x 79 cm

$940

SOLD

This is Life (Orange Butterflies)

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Mixed Media, Sold, Splatter

This is a part of the “This is Life” series of paintings… Sometimes the troubles of this life accumulate on me, overwhelming me and overcoming me and I want a break, I want it to stop, to ease up, for the burdens and the pains to be lifted. But do you know what…this is life. It is easy to look around and think that others have it easier than we do, and sometimes that is true, but sometimes it isn’t, the pains of this life are hidden so often by a facade, that make us believe that it should be easier than it is.My family has had a run of one disaster after another, over the past six months, but amongst that there is beauty, there is joy and there is hope.This painting has been about adapting, healing the past, looking toward hope, but seeing joy in the day to day, in the weeds that have abounded in the rain, in the rain itself, in the birds that wake me in the morning. When I stop and listen, moment by moment, I can keep putting one foot in front of another and enjoy the journey.

Mixed media on linen canvas
40.4 x 50.9 c

Tasmanian oak (painted white) floating frame
43.5 x 53.7 cm

Mini He Loves Me…

Abstract, Acrylic Painting, Floral, Originals For Sale

This was a mini painting (done at the same time) of the painting He Loves Me…
Did you ever play that game when you are a kid where you pulled the petals of a daisy, he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me…
I used to played that a bit too often 🤔
Anyway for whatever reason I was reminded of that while I was painting this and despite all that I face with my physical and mental health, I am so grateful for the 3 “He loves me” in my life.
51 x 51 cm painting
53.7 x 53.7 cm white Tasmanian oak floating frame

Acrylic On Linen Canvas
51 x 51 cm

$540