COLOURFUL LANDSCAPE ARTWORK (2016)

These works, created with soft chalk pastel, acrylic, and gesso on 45 x 50 cm canvases, each capture a different facet of Tasmania. One canvas portrays the bustle of Hobart City—its shops, people, and cars—while the others depict abstracted scenes of the natural environment. Through the use of vibrant, clashing colours, these everyday subjects are transformed into bold, unconventional compositions that reimagine Tasmania in playful and unexpected ways.

STILL LIFE: URN LIGHT & DARK

These small canvases, created with soft chalk pastel and acrylic paint, depict a still life of an urn. Originally plain, the urn has been reimagined through the addition of colourful triangular patterns, transforming its solemn form into something playful and visually striking. This treatment creates a deliberate contrast: while the vibrant exterior lightens its appearance, the urn itself holds cremated human remains, carrying a darker symbolic weight beneath its decorative surface.

ALLA PRIMA DOLLS

Dolls have long fascinated the artist, shifting in appearance from nostalgic childhood objects to unsettling figures that verge on the uncanny. This series, created with acrylic and gesso on canvas board, explores that duality. Each of the three dolls is painted in the alla prima style—a wet-on-wet technique where new layers of paint are applied directly onto still-wet surfaces—giving the works an immediacy and intensity that heightens their eerie presence.

ANDROGYNOUS IMPASTO

These works employ an impasto technique, using a mix of soft chalk pastel, acrylic paint, gesso, poly filler, iridescent medium, sand, and candle wax on canvas board. Paint was applied in thick, textured layers, with each piece experimenting with different materials to build depth: poly filler in the first, gesso in the second, wax in the third, and sand sprinkled into wet paint in the fourth. The series depicts an androgynous figure who appears to be waiting—most notably in the final work, where emphasis is placed on the watch as a symbol of time and anticipation.