Upcoming Exhibition

Solo Exhibition: Sea Acres Rainforest Centre :
Port Macquarie
17 August 2009 to 29 September 2009 .

I will be having an exhibition at the beautiful Sea Acres Rainforest Centre at Port Macquarie.

This is a great little venue with a cafe and suspended boardwalk through the coastal rainforest.

January 2009 Summer Exhibition at the Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery, Gladstone, NSW.

If you couldnt make the Exhibition here are a few shots of the works on display.

Exhibition @ Dovetail Design Furniture and Gallery, Port Macquarie

Here are a few shots of the Exhibition held in September/October 2008

Paintings now at Blue Poles Cafe Gallery, Byabarra

Just got some work up at a great little Gallery at Byabarra, NSW. Its called Blue Poles Cafe Gallery. Its also a B&B with an artists studio as the accommodation.

It also has a great exhibition space. Good walls, Great light and an unusual shaped gallery space.

Here is a few shots of some of the paintings in situ.

New Exhibitions Coming Up

Have been very busy getting work ready for an Up Coming Exhibition at Dovetail Furniture Design Gallery, 5 Merrigal Rd, Port Macquarie.

The Exhibition is set to run from 12 September 2008 to 12 October 2008.

An opening night will be held on Saturday 13 September 2008 at 5.30pm. So hope to see you there.

I should be able to get between 40 and 50 paintings up on the wall. So that will be great.!

The gallery has great light, white walls and the work is presented in a home like atmosphere with fantastic unique hand crafted timber furniture by Richard Ellis (gallery owner and operator)

Here are a couple of the paintings that will be on display.

Some ink and Line Work

I have been working on a few small ink and line works. This is like doing preliminary sketch work in my sketch books only I have been working on canvas and board instead.

I have then been working with "Liquid Spectrum" Concentrated Artists Ink which is really bright and strong and allows some some great fluid effects.

Here are a few photos of the process.

New Oil Paintings

Its been a busy week, what with preping boards, stretching canvas and doing a fair bit of sketching and line work I also managed to work on two good sized oils and get them up to the "looking" stage. This is the stage where I have to see them from a variety of angles, lights and different situations and frame of mind to work out if they are going to survive or not.

So far these two are looking good.

They are are still wet and may yet have some more work done on them ( and a varnish or two in the next few months )