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I Must be Dreaming |
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 | Size: Width 380 mm x height 760 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Dreaming 2003 Notes: Museum quality stretched canvas, heavy duty, unframed. Ready to hang. Signed and dated, lower left. Metallic silver and colour washes layered over the ground. Images are placed randomly but connected by waterfalls or pathways. The horse is a frequent motif in this series and could be interpreted as a dream totem. Not for sale. |
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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.
NFS (Sold) |
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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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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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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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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.
NFS (Sold) |
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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.
NFS (Sold) |
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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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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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#172/173 |
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 | Size: Width 1220 mm x height 840 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Landshapes 2008 Mt Taranaki. Museum quality heavy duty stretched canvas, unframed, ready to hang. Signed and dated bottom right. Price: $2400 |
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#124 |
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 | Size: Width 840 mm x height 1220 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Landshapes 2008 The lighthouse at East Cape. Museum quality heavy duty stretched canvas, unframed, ready to hang. Signed and dated bottom right. Sold |
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#120 |
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 | Size: Width 1010 mm x height 1520 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Landshapes 2008 Motu river mouth, East Cape. Museum quality heavy duty stretched canvas, unframed, ready to hang. Signed and dated bottom left. Price: $3000 |
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#81 |
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 | Size: Width 910 mm x height 610 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Landshapes 2008 Banks Peninsula, Canterbury. Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed, ready to hang. Signed and dated bottom left. Price: $1500 |
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c. 1967 |
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 | Size: Width 500 mm x height 500 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Biscuit Tin Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated 2006 lower right. Photo of me at about 4 years old. A wintery day in Christchurch walking by the Avon River. Odd photo, as I moved out of the frame but seem to be just standing there looking at something in my hand. A leaf maybe. Price: $1400 |
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Ben and Megan |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 900 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Biscuit Tin Museum quality stretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated 2008 bottom left. My sister Megan, in the background left in what appears to be an impromptu photo shoot. NFS |
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Jeremy and cat |
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 | Size: Width 1000 mm x height 1020 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Biscuit Tin Unstretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated 2008 bottom left. My brother Jeremy and his cat. NFS |
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Little Megan |
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 | Size: Width 1220 mm x height 1350 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Series: Biscuit Tin Unstretched canvas, unframed. Signed and dated 2008 bottom right. From a polaroid of lovely Megan taken in Christchurch c. 1985. NFS |
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Oval Ensemble |
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 | Size: Width 1220 mm x height 840 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Islands Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas, ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Use of metallic pigment and washes of rich dark tones give this work a layered, luminous quality. Parts relate to the whole in the context of the oval form and theme. These figurative elements hint at a narrative about loss, grief and renewal through nature or natural processes. Price: $1800 |
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Topographical Map |
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 | Size: Width 1220 mm x height 840 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Islands Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas, ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Use of metallic pigments (silver and gold) washed over add texture, reflecting light and colour. Parts of the New Zealand coastline form a background to an eye-shaped image. A horse with wings and a shag’s head are represented in a sytlised format not unlike a folk tale. Price: $1800 |
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Nature |
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 | Size: Width 1520 mm x height 1010 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Series: Islands Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas, ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Use of metallic pigments in the ground give this work a layered, luminous quality. Some of the figures are scratched through.This is sort of a pastoral, populated with lovers, horses and deer. It is maybe a comment on an attempt to resolve the disjunction between nature and culture or colonialism and ethnicity. Price: $3000 |
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Flying Hare |
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 | Size: Width 760 mm x height 460 mm
Medium: Oil/acrylics on canvas
Date: 2006 Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Whimsical figurative work featuring one of my favourite motifs. As a creative totem this image is a beneficial portent. Price: $1500 |
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Cattery |
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 | Size: Width 910 mm x height 610 mm
Medium: Oil/acrylics on canvas
Date: 2006
Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Ready to hang. Signed and dated lower right. Layers and washes of colour over underpainting. Random images relating to anatomy, with cats. NFS: sold |
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Rain Forest |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 610 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2005 Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. This work comprises a small unnamed body of work completed in 2005. The figure in the foreground is holding a leash tied to a fleshy, typographical, map-like structure representing New Zealand. It has references to ecology and conservation. Price: $2200 |
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Night Stalker |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 460 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2005
Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Ready to hang. Signed and dated lower right. Soft grey monotone over washed background. This work comprises a small unnamed body of work completed in 2005. I have done a sort of ironic, cartoon sketch of a kiwi, with vestigial wings. Price: $2000 |
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Kotare |
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 | Size: Width 500 mm x height 500 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2005 Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Soft grey monotone ground over washed with layers of silver pigment. This work comprises a small unnamed body of work completed in 2005. The girl or bird-man with a knife is a recurring motif in this group. Price: $2200 |
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Ask for Directions |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 460 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2005
Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Soft grey monotone background over washed with layers of silver pigment. This work comprises a small unnamed body of work completed in 2005. The girl and/or bird-man with a knife is a recurring motif in this group. Price: $2200 |
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Anenomes |
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 | Size: Width 610 mm x height 610 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2005 Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Soft grey monotone ground over washed with layers of silver pigment. This work comprises a small unnamed body of work completed in 2005. It is an underwater landscape with a feeling of peace and tranquillity. NFS
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Hors D’ouevres |
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 | Size: Width 500 mm x height 500 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2001 Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Signed and dated lower left. Thick applications create texture in the background, with figures inscribed into wet areas of paint. Painted and exhibited at Milford Galleries Dunedin in North in 2001, a body of work relating to culture and geography. A Dali like composition with typically Jungian references. The red interiors of this series is my way of expressing psychological or ‘internal’ metaphors. NFS: sold |
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Daphne |
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 | Size: Width 500 mm x height 500 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2001 Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Signed and dated lower left. Thick applications of paint create texture in the back ground, with figures inscribed into wet areas of paint. Painted and exhibited at Milford Galleries Dunedin in North in 2001, a body of work relating to culture and geography. Daphne was the mythological character that turned herself into a tree. Like the figure on the edge of the wall, the work achieves an uneasy but serene balance between nature and nurture. NFS: sold |
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Putangitangi II |
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 | Size: Width 760 mm x height 610 mm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2002 Notes: Museum quality, stretched canvas. Unframed. Signed and dated lower left. Male and female paradise ducks, painted in a semi Victorian style. Sepia tones on blue-green ground. One of a pair - Putangitangi I is more or less identical except there are no drips. Price: $2200 |
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Aotearoa |
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 | Size: Width 1010 mm x height 1520 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 2005 A large work on museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Unframed, ready to hang. Signed and dated lower right. Half over-painted landscape with horse head bottom right. A somewhat socio-political comment with a variety of interpretations. Sold |
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White Kiwi |
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 | Size: Width 1220 mm x height 840 mm
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 2005 Notes: Museum quality, heavy duty stretched canvas. Unframed, ready to hang. Signed and dated lower left. Layers and washes of colour over underpainting. An interpretation of a white kiwi, rendered in a cartoon style. Price: $2400 |
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