February is the new January

Finally had my first proper creative week of the year...this new picture has the working title 'setting moon' and is the first of a new series of landscapes which I'm planning to complete by the summer.

Another studio weekend floats by

Summer Open Studios at Coburg House

Hi,
just wanted to flag up our summer open studios event which is taking place over the weekend of the 6th to the 8th of August......it would be great if you could make it along...



I will be exhibiting a new mounted landscape original in the main gallery space and also three different limited edition print versions upstairs in my studio....


West Coast Voyage (66 x 24cm)
photo collage on mounting board


overlapped squares version


abstracted version

New landscape commission

For the last month I have been labouring over a new landscape that is finally ready to be mounted. Its been a slow process (as ever), partly because I've been learning how compose the picture within the parallel virtual world that is photoshop. Basically I have worked out how to mimick what I have previously done with paper and a scalpel, knowing that if I could master the technique it would open up many more possibilities in terms of picture construction and printing. And somewhere along the line it has all come together, and I'm pretty excited about the next series of landscapes which I'm already working on.

Landscape 4.5: The last of the light

and if your interested in the picture development and the photoshop possibilities...

picture outline

in progress...

mirror image

and instant New Zealand Fjordland...(!)

coburg house christmas open studios

just before the preview of christmas open studios at Coburg House...don't have any other pictures of the weekend, it all got a bit blurry very quickly...

Retrospective at Coburg House

In December as part of the Christmas Open Studios at Coburg House, I will be shuffling together a retrospective of my work to date. I am celebrating my 40th birthday so have decided to put on a bit of a show. The Open Studios event runs from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th December 11am - 5pm, with a 'retro' preview from 6 - 9pm on the Friday night. In addition the gallery at the front of the studio complex will be open on the following two weekends leading up to Christmas....

Preview Evening

Can I say a big thank you to everybody who turned up at the open studios preview evening at Coburg House...the whole weekend was a great success, I sold a few prints, and got a couple of commissions....

nervous before the start of the event

with Chris Minty, who organised by trip to Belize : )

doing the chat

in full flow