Splatter art

Black and White: a Grieved Perspective

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I feel grieved by the divisions that seem to be growing wider. 
I feel saddened by friends and family who feel alone, because they have different perspectives. 
I feel saddened by discussions that can’t be civil and respectful. 
I feel saddened and ashamed of the inability to listen and to hear what another is saying. 
I feel saddened that we are not seeing each other as a part of the same humanity.

Why do we only see in black and white?

I feel hope that conversations can be civil. 
I feel hope that love can cover different opinions. 
I feel hope for the softening of hearts towards others. 
I feel the grace that I have received can be shared. 
I feel hope that the world we are experiencing right now will change.

I know that this too shall pass.

This is a diptych, each painting is seperate. The white painting is framed in a black floating frame and the black painting in a white Tasmanian oak floating frame. 
The frames are hand made by me.

Acrylic on Canvas
2 x 76 x 76cm painting

2 x 79 x79cm framed

$2500

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Happy Dappy

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This is a part of my splatter paint series. These paintings start as splatter paintings, where I throw the paint on the canvas, and then develop a painting from the mess. 
I love the idea of seeing what comes from nothing. Discovering what a painting will become.

Painting is two canvases of 30.3 x 50, total size being 60.6 x 50cm

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Different is Interesting Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition Print

Print on paper

Signed and numbered on the front.

When I painted this I was desperate for stress relief and to throw some paint on a canvas. 
As I was doing this, I was thinking about my boys and the obstacles they faced in life. They both have things that make them different than others and at times this has made life difficult for them. 
This painting evolved into a statement to them: that what makes them different also makes them interesting. This painting is all the better for that one flower that sticks out. 
Hopefully, when people see this artwork and they also realise that what makes us different makes us and life all the more interesting.


310gsm cotton rag 
Giclee, archival quality 
50 x 50cm
With white 5cm border 60 x 60cm total size 
Requires framing

Due to prints relying on specialist printing services, orders maybe delayed.

$290

 

Jolly Galah

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We are so lucky to have so much local wildlife. We are constantly seeing a variety of birds around our home and walking areas. We don’t see a lot of galahs, but when we do they are usually foraging around on the ground amongst the grass and flowers.  
This is a part of my splatter art series, they start off as abstract paintings, where I literally just throw paint on a canvas. I love then creating something out of the mess.

Acrylic on canvas
76 x76 cm (canvas alone) 
79cm x 79cm with floating frame

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Persistent Swallow

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This artwork is part of my splatter art series. It brings me so much joy, to literally throw paint on the canvas, and is a At our local shops there are the most adorable little swallows that roost in the eves. No matter how many spikes have been placed there, pretend snakes put up, these gorgeous little birds can not be persuaded to move on. While it may not be the best for the businesses, they are so beautiful and a highlight of our visit; when we can spot them.

Framed in a painted white, lovingly made (by me) Tasmanian oak floating frame.

40.5 x 50.5cm painting size
43.6 x 53.6cm framed size

$660

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This is Life Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition Print

Print on paper

Signed and numbered on the front.

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.

310gsm cotton rag 
Giclee, archival quality 
50 x 50cm (60 x 60cm with 5cm border) 
Requires framing

Due to prints relying on specialist printing services, orders maybe delayed.

$380

 

This is Life

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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 canvas
101.5 x 101.5cm

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A Moment

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This piece is part of my “abstractish” series. It is one of the most fun series I have ever painted. I start by literally throwing paint on the canvas (usually with one of my sons), over and over and over again and then paint what comes from it.
I love the freedom of painting this way, and I feel like the joy that I experience translates onto the canvas.
Comes in a (lovingly made) painted white Tasmanian oak floating frame.

Acrylic on canvas
76 x76 cm (canvas alone) 
79cm x 79cm with floating frame

$1100

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Raising Lazarus

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Art is the way I deal with life. 
The last couple of weeks have been both traumatic and miraculous, painful and wonderful. 
Painting this has been part of me processing all that has happened. 
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28

Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 101.6cm

$1000

A New Day

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This one, for whatever reason, has beens such a struggle for me. I have painted over it so many times. I think I have been trying to paint something that would sell, or paint something that others would like…whenever I do this I always fail, good never really comes from trying to please others, forsaking who you are.
Ben Quilty recently posted a video where he said the beginnings of art should be hidden, you should never show anyone else, as you may be influenced by their positivity or negativity towards your work, forsaking what it would have been had you not heard their comments.
What brilliant advice.
I wonder how often the choices I make in my life, generally, are subtly influenced but the positive and negative feedback, I get from those around me. I wonder how much more at peace I would be if I was able to contain myself, until my form was strong enough to withstand the judgement of the world around me….

Acrylic on Linen Canvas, framed in white Tasmanian oak frame.
76 x 76cm (79 x 79 frame)

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Another Day of Hope…

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Hope… a fresh start, a new beginning, spring to come…lessons to be learnt, patience to be developed, perseverance, resilience, family, connection, change… 
This painting is in a series of what I call “Abstractish”. It is my sweet relied from the confines of commissioned work and trying to please. I literally will through paint on a canvas (this one with my youngest son) and then bring out the beauty that comes from it. The joy that I feel doing these paintings is immense and is immense. 
I have recently added this Lorikeet, from a photo taken of this gorgeous and brazen lorikeet that my eldest son and I discovered when out for a walk. We came within a metre of it, but it was determined to stay and gets in nectar feed.

This painting comes with a floating frame (made by me) in white painted Tasmanian oak.

Acrylic on Linen Canvas
76 x 76cm

$1150

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Gentle Whisper

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I painted this painting while sobbing. I wasn’t feeling the best, hadn’t slept, was aching for my son and I knew I needed to paint.
I went to the backyard with a box full of paints that I had grabbed and started to throw them on the canvas. As I cried, I cried out to God.
It has been a painful time as I have continued to paint this, and to continue to cry out to God for wisdom.
I was reminded of the bible verse 1 King 19:11-13, where God asked Elijah to stand on a mountain where He would pass by and there was a great wind, which tore everything apart and God was not in that, and a great earthquake and God was not in that, and a great fire, but he was in none of these. Then came a gentle whisper…
God has come to me in a gentle whisper: I just need to wait on Him, trusting Him in all circumstances and He will provide what I need and what my kids need.

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Dancing Daisies

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I was terrified to share this painting because it is me, in paint. It was pure joy to paint this piece.
This is one of a series of splatter art works, abstractish pieces that I have done, where I start by literally throwing paint on a canvas, and then I make something from it.
It also has a lot more to it than some may see. It is kind of like a parable, it will only really make sense to the one who attends to it closely and the more they pay attention the more they will discover.
It has hidden things amongst it.

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Field of Hope

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While I enjoyed a previous painting I had done, I decided to take drastic action and paint over it.  
I needed to let loose so threw paint on this canvas time and time again (good therapy actually) until I saw this field of flowers begin to emerge. 
I have included in the pictures below a quick cartoon that explains the painting much better than my words possibly could.

Acrylic on Canvas
101.6 x 101.6cm

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Wondrous Weeds

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My wondrous weeds of joy! 
We don’t get to choose what life throws at us, most of the time, but we can choose how we see it. 
This is another one that definitely looks better in real life, check it out up close.


91.5 x 91.5 cm
Acrylic on stretched canvas, ready to hang

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Different is Interesting

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When I painted this I was desperate for stress relief and to throw some paint on a canvas. 
As I was doing this, I was thinking about my boys and the obstacles they faced in life. They both have things that make them different than others and at times this has made life difficult for them. 
This painting evolved into a statement to them: that what makes them different also makes them interesting. This painting is all the better for that one flower that sticks out. 
Hopefully, when people see this artwork and they also realise that what makes us different makes us and life all the more interesting.

 

122 x 122cm
Acrylic painting on stretched canvas, ready to hang

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The Journey Home

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I love doing splatter paintings, where I just create by throwing and pressing and then let it dry and see what the painting wants to be.  
At the time of doing this my son (I would read some with him) was reading Anh Doh’s , “The Happiest Refugee”: I was really taken by this book and the hope it was filled with. Anh and his family left Vietnam under terrible and trying circumstances, but they made a great life here and our country is better off for having him here. 
When I painted my splatter painting, all I could see was these refugees, or this journey, from pain and difficulty towards hope.
101.6 x 101.6 cm

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