COLOURFUL LANDSCAPE ARTWORK (2016)

These artworks all explore Tasmania utilising soft chalk pastel, acrylic paint, gesso on canvas 45x50cm. With each artwork representing an entirely different side of Tasmania. One side illustrates the busy Hobart City with shops, people and cars, while the other depicts abstracted scenes of nature. The artworks are altered with the application of vibrant clashing colour that transforms these rudimentary scenes into funky unusual creations.

STILL LIFE: URN LIGHT & DARK

These artworks have been created using soft chalk pastel, acrylic paint on small canvas and are a still life depicting an urn. The urn was decorated with triangles to transform its bland original appearance. The addition of triangles makes light of what is a serious object. The urn houses cremated human remains, and for this reason, the urn holds darker symbolic significance and contrasts the outside appearance which is colourful.

ALLA PRIMA DOLLS

Dolls have always interested the artist, and in certain angles, dolls can transform from childish tokens of the past to creepy phantoms of nightmares. This series was created using acrylic paint, gesso on canvas board. The three dolls were painted using the ‘alla prima’ style, which is a wet-on-wet direct painting technique where layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint.

ANDROGYNOUS IMPASTO

An impasto technique has been utilised in these paintings using soft chalk pastel, acrylic paint, gesso, polly filler, iridescent medium, sand, candle wax on canvas board. The paint was laid across areas of the artwork in very thick layers. Each artwork has different materials used to thicken the paint. In the first painting poly filler was mixed in with the paint, the second painting used gesso, the third utilised wax, and in the fourth sand was sprinkled into the wet paint. These textural artworks depict an androgynous character, who seems to be waiting for someone, note the emphasis on the watch in the fourth painting.