Image Scrapbook: Grottos Jan 2021Finding influences that informed the fashion of populating glasshouses + conservatories with artificial grottosThe term and style 'grotesque' became popular in Europe around the 16th century after the accidental discovery of Emperor...

small painting progression Oct 2020the delicate and permeable qualities of the ferns mean that the background is always coming through in some way. starting with light qualities and tonal differences, then more definite structural objects are defined, all making a...

The Book of the Conservatory. P, Marston. (1992) George Weidenfeld & Nicolson LTD London

Background The ‘Pteridomania’ series began as a response to the early 2020 Australian bushfires. As whole ecosystems burn, will the landscapes we once previously enjoyed so freely become rare and unusual? Could the pockets of remaining natural splendor take on a...

Glasshouse sketches April 2020 . These sketches are predominately based on images from the glasshouses at Kew Gardens London, (formally Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London). They helped inform some of the frame designs of the Pteridomania series, continuing the...

Image Scrapbook: Glasshouses April 2020Finding relationships between landscape and architecture.

painting progression April - May 2020

Studio April 2020Photos of my home-studio in Brisbane. The converted second bedroom leads out onto a walled in courtyard which is also my laundry.

Stradbroke Island Painting Progression Oct - Nov 2019