Artists

Studio Antics  2024

This salon-style body of work is typical of my surrealist approach to subject matter:

I love to reference paintings from art history, and then introduce my characters and quirks.

For example, the painting titled The Studio, depicts my twin-sister Marie, and I, in my studio contemplating a drawing. The sculptures in the painting are my own existing bronze and ceramic works.

Titles continue to be part of my inspiration for each painting. Often titles precede the creation of the work. Venus and the Wall Flower, and Sir de Fleur and his Flying Fox, started as fun titles/word combinations I felt the need to create images for.

The title of my show, Studio Antics, is from the title of one of my featured paintings. Based on the art work Las Meninas, (Diego Velazquez 1656) this painting reflects my own antics as I replace figures and add to the positive space within the artist’s studio.

The paintings are oil on wood. I consider the frames to be an extension of the paintings.

Salon des Animaux Chambers Art Gallery 2022

Salon Des Animaux (Animal Salon) is a body of work reflecting my passion for animals, art historical paintings and story telling.

Salon references the 17th century Paris Salons. These early salons were fraught with artistic prejudice, judgment and passion. Before long they were suitably challenged by break-away salons such as Salon des Refuses. I am fascinated by the drama and culture of the European art world during the 15th – 19th century, and see similarities in todays’ art society.

The technique of gesso-transfer onto wood allows me to overtly reference historical paintings and their stories. The added oil-painting transforms them into my own aesthetic and narrative interpretation.