Butter Knives still life
a Birthday still life for Kristy, with her gran’s butter knife next to my favorite all-purpose tool. Oil on board.
Nabawa cloud studies
Three small oil on board paintings done over the course of a day from a sunset at Eringacarra.
Start as you intend to continue
First portrait of the new year, Cally at the kitchen table <3
Tenderness
A new series of ink drawings exploring decay and change through the natural forms of coral and neurofibrillary formations.
Rabble Sale Poster 2024
Rabble’s Sixth Birthday sale poster, with Pip and Minty and Dora in the style of E.H. Shepard, the book illustrator best known for the pictures in Winnie the Pooh.
Carnaby’s cockatoo concept sketch
A pitch for a series of watercolour paintings to decorate a clinic space. The project won’t go ahead, but it is useful to work through an idea.
Souvenir Postcards
Reduction linoprint postcards commemorating the cultural edifices of the Commonwealth of New Bayswater, a collaboration with the esteemed Jessee Lee Johns for the visa office. I was visa issuer for the day, with instant passport pictures made on the spot. Postcard packs and passport photos available by request.
Oil study
Eucalyptus albida sprig in a bottle dug up by the chooks, small study in oils
Overland process notes
The cover design for Overland issue 243 explores the idea of a post-human flooded city. The glass-bottomed kayak makes a window to the submerged world through a screen of floating trash. I looked at images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch along with areas of the ocean with a lot of plastic pollution. Initially I […]
Out of Office
A playful placeholder for Cass Lynch’s away days, featuring a Scarlet Banksia (Banksia coccinea) and Meowsy.