A body of work completed and exhibited at Milford Galleries in Dunedin in 2002. These works conform to a warm palette of orange, rich yellows and flesh pinks. The series title reflects two of the main themes: Typography expressed in pictorial terms and the social and psychological implications of relationships. Despite the series title and palette the subjects are not sentimental or romantic but often express irony and dark humour.
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Handsome H |
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 | Size: Width 910 x height 610 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated lower left. Layers and washes of colour create texture, with scratched through details on the figures and speech bubbles which contain tiny images in tableau. The H shape creates an awkward spatial disjunction against the desert like landscape.
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Superfluous R's |
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 | Size: Width 710 x height 1010 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated lower right. Washes and thin layers of colour with details drawn over.
Two figures in the foreground seem to be having a conversation while lower case letter R’s fall from a structure in the background.
Price: $2400 |
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Lost Souls |
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 | Size: Width 610 x height 910 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated lower left. Washes of colour with impasto marks and thin applications of paint suggesting a landscape or seascape. Two figures, like seed pods or organic, semi human forms pass by each other.
Price: $2200 |
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Ascending R's |
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 | Size: Width 710 x height 1010 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated lower right. Washes of colour over metallic under-painting, the subject of which is just visible. A staircase type structure runs from lower left to top right of the composition, upon which tiny letters are climbing upwards.
Price: $2400 |
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Pony Plateau |
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 | Size: Width 610 x height 910 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated lower left. Washes of colour over metallic under-painting which is visible in places.
Raised structures supporting leaping horses on one, on the other lower case letter P’s and on a third an upper case letter P. Road and wall type forms bisect the landscape.
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Being |
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 | Size: Width 710 x height 1010 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom right. Washes of colour over metallic under-painting, with tiny bird form details scratched through into a gold ground to form a large urn shape.
A spacious landscape and sunset coloured sky form the background of the bird/urn structure. An upper-case letter B at the top-centre of the urn creates a pun, along with the title.
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Big F |
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 | Size: Width 760 x height 610 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom right.
A park like area with arena, dissected by wall and pier forms. A large F shaped shadow dominates the scene in which a small figure in a bull ring is watched by two figures sitting on a bench.
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Free Lunch |
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 | Size: Width 610 x height 910 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom left. Washes of colour create texture with thin applications of pigment layered on.
Either landscape or interior with mismatched chairs placed about a table, populated by the letter “P”. The flesh like forms seem to devolve from the vase shapes at the bottom right area of the composition.
Price: $2200 |
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Help |
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 | Size: Width 610 x height 910 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom right. Washes of colour create texture with thin applications of pigment layered on.
A landscape overshadowed by part of a large H form. Swatches of hair dangle above a shower-bath while at the bottom of the composition a small figure runs towards a tower of h-shaped chairs.
Price: $2200 |
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Lost A |
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 | Size: Width 610 x height 760 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom right. Dark tones washed over metallic underpainting.
The bird at the top right of the composition mirrors a similar bird at bottom left in this landscape. Areas like speech bubbles, one of which is being towed across the landscape by another bird, contain tiny images.
Price: $2000 |
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T Intersection |
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 | Size: Width 1010 x height 760 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom left. Washes of colour over warm underpainting.
Sections of large T shaped forms support rows of containers. Tiny figures inside the containers have been scratched through the white paint into the ground.
Price: $2400 |
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Mid Winter Lament |
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 | Size: Width 910 x height 610 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom left. Washes of colour over warm underpainting.
A large semi-transparent container dominates the composition from the left, which is balanced by the urn form on the right as seen in other works like Being in this series. This work is brought to you by the letter A.
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Transparent P |
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 | Size: Width 610 x height 460 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Love Letters 2002
Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated bottom right. Washes of colour over warm underpainting.
A flat, featureless landscape with a distant city, on which are placed five jug-like containers, a small vase and a bath. Like “T Intersection”, figures are scratched into the paint on the containers.
Price: $2400 |
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