The Blue Feather

This is a new nest painting,I believe it's complete but I never think they are finished, I always want to add one more piece of detail. But I'm going to resist this time and leave it as it is.
The size is 1m x 1m, it has a pale blue background.

SOLD - Dreamweaver

I have been trying to collect all the images featuring nests. This one was painted in 04 and belongs to my son James. It's a small painting, about 350 mm square.

SOLD - In Flight

This painting was completed in 05, it sits in a dentists waiting room here in South Australia. it apparently gets lots of good comments according to my dentist friend! I'm trying to post all of my nest paintings I think there is one other old painting to catch up on.

Nest on a Ledge

This little painting was finished last weekend, it's a little more free in the application of paint, I'm trying very hard to not use the fine brushes all the time, my next painting will be a still life without a nest!! watch this space,

Orbiter

A new and beautiful nest painting, just completed. This one will be appearing in the next edition of the Australian Art Collector magazine. A primitive space ship, traveling in space and holding within itself an embryonic life force.

SOLD - The Blue Egg

This is a commissioned piece from a client that loved a similar painting that was sold earlier this year. So I changed the proportions to suit their needs, I am particularly proud of this painting and will miss it when it leaves the studio.

SOLD - Shelter from the Storm

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This is a smaller sized painting, about 600 x 500 mm. Painted directly from a collected nest. I had been asked by a prospective client to do a painting of this size and I will show him sometime next week. Any visitors to my blog site, I would be really pleased to hear your comments or questions you may have regarding my work. (Is there anyone out there?)

Nest on Grey

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This nest painting is fairly large scale, 120 cm x 120 cm. (It fits into my RAV, only just!)
I may enter this into the annual Balmain Art show in Sydney this November. i love the background splatter effect, and the colour of the nest works very well against the neutral grey background. It's a powerful image and if and when it sells I will miss it!

Spinner

I have changed the contents of this nest a couple of times. It started with two dead chicks' skeletons, which were found in this nest during the hot summer. Friends told me it would be hard to sell with such a sad story, so I replaced them with three eggs. This picture will go into the annual Cathedral Art show next month, here in Adelaide

SOLD - Grey and Brown

A new painting, finished on the weekend, or as an artist friend of mine pointed out "a paintng is never finished, just abandoned". It's about 1 meter wide, and has an unintentional surrealist look to it. I will put it in one of the up-coming local art shows unless one of my blog visitors snaps it up before hand! Contact me for a price.

Nest on Black Three Blue Eggs

AVAILABLE this painting is 120 x 120 cm, it was painted late last year.

Nest on Sandstone

AVAILABLE I've had this painting in my studio for some time now and I decided to add the blue egg which helps give it a focal point. This painting is available, email me for details should you be interested in purchasing. The size is 120 x 120 cm.

SOLD
This painting was exhibited in the main 'Hunt Leather' shop in Balmain, Sydney. A client in Adelaide saw it on my website and I had to transport it back here after only being on the wall a few days!



SOLD
A smaller painting, one of my first. I can't remember who bought it, or where it went.



SOLD
This is a large nest painting 120 cm x 120 cm. it was sold from my exhibition at Scarletti's gallery in Clare, and I believe it went to a collector in Broken Hill, NSW.



AVAILABLE
This is a smaller painting, and at the time of posting this blog, it is still available. It measures 500 cm x 500 cm. It won a major prize at the Flagstaff Hill annual exhibition, the judge was well known prize winning painter, John McCartin.

Exhibition

Here are four of my nest paintings at my Sydney solo exhibition last year. All of these have since been sold.

nest series 7

SOLD - May 2008
This painting was made from a nest that was given to me by a friend living up in the Adelaide Hills. Receiving nests from people in plastic bags etc seems to be the norm these days! Some look better than others and these are the ones that I try to use in my paintings. This particular painting is showing me a development towards a free-er form of applying the paint. I'm blending edges and smudging colours. This one sold at it's first showing.



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This painting is almost 1 meter square, the nests on black backgrounds are very dramatic and look sensational on a large white wall. This picture was completed in December 2007.

nest series 6

SOLD - December 2007
This nest painting was done the other day, it's smaller than I normally do, about 500 x 500 cms, it works well, I believe because it was painted quickly in a more spontaneous way, I held myself back from labouring over it, with too much fine detail, (a habit left over from my years as an illustrator!)

nest series 4

SOLD - October 2007
This painting was completed for the exhibition, of all the nest paintings I have completed this one is probably the mostpowerful, and the one that has had the most praise, while at the exhibition, a stranger spoke to me and told me why I painted these nests,( spooky!.) according to him, the blackeness in the centre draws you in, and then once focussed, they have a mandala effect which helps with meditation? they also according to him have a spirituality, were they bring nature and art together, etc etc, fascinating!! I of course new all this before I painted them!

nest series 3

SOLD - July 2007
This is a commisioned painting of a birds nest, someone saw an earlier one of mine at an exhibition, and by the time she had brought her husband back for his approval, it had been sold. so she found me and asked if I would do one specially for her. it is oil on canvas and a metre square.

nest series 2

SOLD - April 2007
Birds nest on an ochre background.
This one went to Broken Hill NSW. Its 1m20 x 1m20. One of my best, shame to get rid of it! Now I have to do another one.

Nest series 1

SOLD - April 2007
Here are some of my trademark birds-nest oil paintings. I paint these from an empty nest I found. They have proven to be quite popular, as all of these have already been sold.