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.



SOLD
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.