Welcome to my website - Information about Commissions

I hope you enjoy my paintings.

This web site displays a range of my work.

My paintings are vibrant and expressive with strong tonal contrast. They are mostly derived from direct observation and clearly reflect my individual response and free spontaneous mark making. I usually work on location (en plein air). In recent years, I have concentrated on painting flowers and gardens, enchanted by their colour and beauty.

I work in oils or acrylics on canvas, gouache on paper and ink on paper.

Initially I worked only in oils but was introduced to gouache (opaque water colours) by A.W.Harding (my painting lecturer at Melbourne State College) when I travelled overseas in 1988. Gouache has the same strong tonal quality as oils without the mess and the long drying time. I now also work in acrylic and enjoy all media. Since exchange teaching in Japan, I have also made many small black and white pen and brush studies particularly on my recent travels through Hokkaido and Italy.

I have won numerous awards for my paintings. In 2004 I received the Strathdon Community Award for Best Work on Paper and in 2002 was granted first prize for best painting painted on the day at Heritage Hill Gardens.

(See profile for full list of awards.)

My paintings are represented in several Civic Collections including those of Melbourne City, Monash, Diamond Valley and Bacchus Marsh City Councils, Geelong and public and private collections in Australia and Overseas.

Paintings

Landscapes large
Bush or Coastal Landscapes and River flats, many painted on the Bellarine Peninsula and Melbourne views by the Yarra in Wattle Park etc

Landscapes small
Studies of landscapes in Australia and Japan

Seascapes large
Land Sea and Sky paintings in a variety of media, capturing moods of nature.

Seascapes small
Land Sea and Sky paintings in a variety of media, capturing moods of nature. Many small gouache studies

Garden Paintings large
Paintings of Botanical gardens and private gardens in a variety of sizes

Floral Studies small
Small studies of plants and flowers in a variety of media. Many small gouache studies.

Ink brush studies in back and white small studies of landscapes in Australia, Italy and Japan.

Garden Commissions
My Paintings will make a personal gift for the garden lover and people down sizing or moving into apartments, retirement villages or nursing homes.

I love my garden, an interest fostered from my childhood fascination with my Aunt’s garden in Ballarat.

My passion is to capture the aesthetic beauty of the shapes and colours of plants and foliage with free expressive mark making.

I look forward to paintings views of your garden or capturing the beauty of a prized bloom.

I have painted in Monet’s Garden in Giverny and have also painted many aspects of the Botanical Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens, Ballarat Gardens, Monash Gallery Gardens and Japanese Gardens as well as numerous views of my own and others gardens.

My Exhibitions include “Rhapsody in Green”, “The Artist’s Gardens”, “Garden Glimpses”, “All Things Bright and Beautiful” and “Plants and Places”.

I work on large or medium scale for sections of the garden. I also work on a small scale for flower studies of particular plants.

I work in gouache (opaque water colours) on illustration board or paper and in oils or acrylic on canvas.

Works may be purchased unframed or I can arrange to have your work framed.

I mostly work on location (en plein air) inspired by direct observation; however, I have recently completed some works inspired from my own photographs.

You can contact me via email to arrange for me to discuss your requirements and to give quotation.

I will require 30% deposit to commence the painting. This will be taken from the final cost of the painting when purchased.

Paintings will start from $100.00 for mounted small flower studies.

Large painting should be completed in less than three sittings and smaller ones should be completed in a day, depending on the weather.

I look forward to painting your garden or the gardens of your friends and family.