These paintings are my first attempts to construct in the genre style where I strive to engage my viewers in sharing my narrative and the narrative of the subjects I seek to represent. The subjects are ordinary people engaged in ordinary daily activities. It is from this beginning that I have developed my interest in genre painting.
50cm x 76cm. Unframed. Oil on canvas. Commission work for a friend.
Available as a digital print or a photoprint.
38cm x 46cm. Framed. Oil on canvas. The composition of this family musical night came from an old photograph taken over 70 years ago. The painting was a gift for a friend.
Available only as a digital print.
45cm x 60cm. Unframed. Oil on canvas. Commission work.
Available as a digital print or photoprint.
45cm x 60cm. Unframed. Oil on canvas. Commission work. Done in a style to appeal to children - of all ages!
Available only as a digital print.
45cm x 75cm. Framed. Acrylic on board. Owned by the artist. This painting is one of my very first efforts and shows my love of backyards and the lives of ordinary people. It is done in a naive style.
Available only as a digital print.
Oil on canvas. 60cm x 50cm. Framed. I love this painting and have refused to sell it. One day I am going to give it to a friend who loves it as much as I do. The name "Barney Glade" came to me in a moment of madness along with my desire to paint cabbages. The idea of the cabbages came from the painting "Watching the cabbages grow". I will paint some more backyards with cabbages one day when I get my present obsession with brick buildings out of my system.
Oil on canvas. 50cm x 65cm. Framed. One of my first attempts at painting the patterns in buildings as backdrops to my genre studies. These buildings I found behind a restaurant in Bendigo.
Available only as a digital print.
Oil on canvas. 71cm x 56cm. Unframed. The matching pair to "Secret men's Business: Paintworks". I used the fascade of a hotel in Daylesford for the model for the pub. Had a lot of fun learning how to paint lead light glass so popular in these early hotels.
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Oil on canvas. 30cm x 40cm. Unframed. My "mauvre" woman is one of my favourites and the painting was sold before the paint had dried- purchased by someone with a similar sense of humour as mine.
Available as a digital print or photoprint.
Oil on Canvas. 42cm x 32cm. Framed. No. 1 of triptych.
Demonstrates my love of the lanes that can be found around Melbourne. As a genre artist I find many subjects for my paintings in my excursions into laneway life including animals life such as cats and dogs. In one of my walks in the lanes I saw a cat peeping through a broken fence and from here the idea for the painting was born.
Available as a digital print or photoprint.
