Surreal Gallery
In this gallery, lies the bountiful lands of the weird and the wonderful; snapshots from the space in-between where the imagination takes you.
Weird worlds
Off to the party
Acrylic on 130×96.5x4cm stretched canvas, 2023
This piece is about bravery. Being brave like a child, being free and having the enthusiasm for a future with untold adventures…like a child.
It is for the people who have forgotten how amazing and wonderful life is when you let go and go with the flow.
Play Ball
Landscapes of the mind series
Acrylic on 80 x 60 x 4cm stretched cotton canvas, 2025
For this painting, I opened the door to outside influence and mixed some of my painting project ideas together. I also used coincidental influences such as shade on the painting to develop this strange world. Underlying this is a message about taking the strange things in life, in your stride and if things get weird…play ball.
Capturing the mountain
Acrylic on 100x50x4cm stretched canvas, 2020
In a world connected to our own, snippets of a different reality float in. This painting uses nonagons and the Fibonacci sequence to reference the mathematics of realities.
The mountain featured is Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in Europe.
Tic Toc
Acrylic on 60x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2020
The painting called ‘Tic Toc’ has nothing to do with the social media platform, but everything to do with time. In particular, the space in-between the conscious and the sub-conscious. The colours, imagery and even the mindset through the painting process were all mindfully done to give the painting the energy needed to bring on a theta wave beat for the viewer. This is when you step out of your relative reality and take the watery path to other worlds that exist beyond ours. This is also one of the many paths to enter the subconscious, where all time exists at once or not at all, depending on the perspective. Travel light, there is no room for baggage.
Envolée de pétales
Surrealist dreamscape painting of hot air balloons throwing petals, with a pretty backdrop of Mont Blanc and Aiguilles de warrens in the French Alps.
Acrylic on 50x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2023
Démontagnage
Surrealist dreamscape painting of hot air balloons carrying cows in the French Alps.
Démontagnage is the name given to the time for the cows to come down from the mountain after eating the summer’s bounty of grass and wild flowers in the French Alps. In this painting I play with naivety; since I have not seen the cows come down off the steep slopes, I pretend I have no idea how they arrive, so I must think like a child and join the dots with the little information I have. This is one of the techniques to activate the imagination, the
essential tool for creativity.
Acrylic on 60x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2025
Deepwater tranquillity
Acrylic on 130×96.5x4cm stretched cotton canvas, 2023
This painting is inspired from a photograph taken by Tobias Friedrich of freediver Anna von Boetticher, swimming under the ice in Greenland.
Montgolfières (Aiguilles de warrens)
Acrylic on 50x50x2cm stretched cotton canvas, 2019
Surrealist painting of hot air balloons floating around a mountain floating on clouds, in the French alps.
This mountain that I open my bedroom window to looks like a castle. The changes of colour, through the different seasons and time of day, are amazing. Sometimes the whole valley is hidden under a veil of clouds and hot air balloons can be seen regularly floating around the mountains. I add a universe underneath, for who knows what exists under there, when we cannot see under the veil?
Opening portholes
Acrylic on 68x49x2cm stretched canvas, 2023
Footy Fever
This is the religion of football in Australia.
Oil on 120x80cm stretched cotton canvas, 2002
Out of the home and into the bush
Acrylic on 60x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2020
Dimension Intrusion
In another dimension, a door opens from another dimension.
Acrylic on 50x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2008
Cosmic confluence
Acrylic on stretched cotton canvas, 2007
Shelly
Acrylic on stretched cotton canvas, 2011
We are made of the sand and the shells from the ocean, the dirt from the mountains and the stardust from the universe.
Cloakroom adventures
This is a series deep and layered in meaning. The idea came….
through covid time, when I contemplated what my jackets were up to in the cupboard when I was not in them. The idea evolved to capture the essence of a moment that did not need much conscious thought, because all too often, we let our head get in the way of a soulful moment.
Through the exploration into the sub conscious in my previous work, much was revealed in how the subconscious works with memories. The limelight and tunnel effect in this series represent how our memories are presented in one moment. Sometimes we don’t remember the face, just the feeling.
There are also several interpretations of the symbolism of a hook and empty jacket, depending on the mindset, are you a glass half empty or half full ? Are you aware? Are you in your body, in your head, or are you an electrical being that exists beyond space and time ?
Abstract surrealism
My creations are a result of planning and non planning, equal control, to allow ideas from the conscious and the sub-conscious mind to flow through onto the canvas. A dance between control and release, which can contain thoughts and events that happened throughout the creation period, recording the pattern of life in action. The art then becomes infused with the energy of the creation period and has the power to speak from soul to soul using a language our conscious mind has not been privy to.
Dimensional shift
Acrylic on 98x74x2cm stretched canvas, 2016-2023
Awake
Acrylic on 40x30x2 cm stretched canvas, 2020
The first note
Acrylic on 60x50x4 cm stretched canvas, 2013
Structure of serendipity
Acrylic on 50x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2023
Neurons
Acrylic on 70x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2020
Ploofle
Acrylic on 30x30x2cm stretched cotton canvas, 2024
Free
This painting was used in the award-winning suicide prevention program ‘CORES’ and has been of assistance to families who have lost a loved one.
Acrylic on stretched canvas, 2006
Landscape of the mind
Acrylic on 30x24x4cm stretched canvas, 2021
Brainflower
Acrylic on 60x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2014
Overflow
Acrylic on 60x50x2cm stretched canvas, 2014
Overflow is about yin and yang, the balance and flow within Mother Earth
In the beginning…
The specific techniques and style used to create my artworks have been developed over many years of experimentation, research and practice. They are designed to ‘speak’ to a deeper part of the viewer. Each work of art contains an energy within itself.
These are some of the paintings that helped develop and learn the techniques.
Left: “All under this roof.” Acrylic on 120x100x2cm stretched canvas, 2006
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