Rare Plants

$1,000.00

70 x 3cm
x 70cm

When I tell people I have a rare plant or show people my rare plants I feel like they have a small disappointment seeing that it looks like an actual plant. So I decided to paint a painting as if the rare plants actually look like what people expect. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

Self Portrait at 29

$950.00

90 x 1.7cm
x 60.5cm

I decided to paint a self portrait since I happen to be whipping them out every few years, this time I didn't paint it as a mid-shot front on artwork but a reflection of how I've spent my 20's. Painting until I drop at the easel. Painting the look of gold (without using gold) is a challenge I've been working on lately and my home is gold themed so I tackled that in this painting as well, turning the furniture gold. I still don't think I've figured it out so I guess it's also a reflection of how much progress I'd made with gold by this age. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

Play on Through

$800.00

76.5 x 3cm
x 38cm

On Tap 2

$590.00

25 x 3cm
x 30cm

This painting is a continuation from last weeks painting, I really enjoyed looking at the statue in that painting and decided to re-create the concept only with statues. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

Vases for Decor Purposes

$550.00

46 x 3cm
x 30cm

A while back I painted an illusion so the viewer sees a vase instead of an actual vase, the artwork was purely curiosity and learning about illusions. The artwork was then later featured in a category “Vases” and they portrayed it as a décor piece. I'm against art for décor purposes so being promoted as decor bothers me. Fast forward I'd been looking at another vase painting although didn't realise I were looking at vases and thought they were oranges as vases, I decided to take that misunderstanding and create an artwork out of it. Here's my vases for décor purposes, although since I have the motivation of my illusion painting behind this then it isn't décor anymore, it's a statement. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

Comfort in Prejudice

$550.00

40 x 3cm
x 50cm

This is a painting I started painting with an idea sparked from a painting I recently created, ‘Flock Party’, while painting this one I decided that the spots on the bird will be hidden by squares on the bag it's stuck in. I originally had the idea to paint a somewhat sequel to 'Corporate' with a plain bag and then decided to slightly pivot. I often keep my opinions to myself (during the moment) when I notice someones humouring me or so blinded by prejudice and told I can't do something, so I painted the bird as pink spots and the viewer, not you the viewer, but the viewer within the painting decides that the pink spots don't align with their prejudice and they decide to see yellow squares. So this bird is trapped in a bag of yellow squares. I think that people use prejudice as a form of comfort, despite hindering others. Your pink spots don't align with their narrative so now you have to get out of the bag before continuing your flight. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

On Tap

$500.00

30 x 3cm
x 54.5cm

This year I'm more against consumerism than usual, my new years resolution is to save as many items from council cleanup as bags of rubbish I throw out. Since then I've realised that most of my trash is actually re-usable in some form (compost, local scrap metal, recycling centre). Which then translated to preferring second hand items and watching how people shop as a hobby. I painted the taps to represent the unlimited amount of items someone can buy and decided to create the first tap a human statue tap but painted the man upset and bombarded by the other taps. The buyer is the product. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

Nobodies Watching, Everybody's Taking Notes

$500.00

40 x 3cm
x 50cm

I started painting this with an entirely different idea in mind although by the time I painted it, it turned into something else. There's definitely people seeing that I'm making art but not actually seeing how much work I do to get there so they're the birds. They're not watching and they're taking note. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

Goals Staring Back at Me

$500.00

44.5 x 3cm
x 37.5cm

I began this painting when I challenged myself to create 11 paintings in one week. This one would have been a challenge on it's own since paintings with faces always take longer, I didn't finish it in that week. I originally had the idea to paint just a crowd looking toward the front of the painting, somewhat confronting then decided to include buildings and ended up with just a few faces (Caravaggio faces, since I had to pick a face) on mounds looking at the viewer. I named it 'Goals Staring Back at Me' as if I've let go of a few of them temporarily and they're waiting, staring back at me. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

Never Even Existed

$450.00

45.5 x 3cm
x 30.5cm

Prior to this artwork I accidentally attracted one bee that visited on the daily, that bee then brought it's friend and word spread and now I have a crew that spends their days on my balcony. I've heard around that bees are becoming extinct so I looked into it (wanting to feed them what they should be eating) and learnt that honey bee's aren't facing extinction at all and they're not that great at pollinating. Other bee species are great pollinators, don't make honey and can come in cool colours... I've been saving the wrong species. Here we are trying to spread awareness about bee extinction but when most people hear “bee” they think honey bee, most people don't know other bee species exist, and if we don't believe they even exist then what's the difference to us when they're extinct? That venture lead to this painting, in terms of skill I really struggled since it's so far from my style. The blue Mason Bee fights the Honey Bee for it's place in the world. I decided to paint it's wings as bubbles since this bee is fantasy to most people anyway. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.

PC Pond

$400.00

30 x 3cm
x 30cm

While painting a previous painting Michael Jackson came on the radio and with the general “politically correct” vibe of western societies right now an idea came to mind to paint a spiky lake that would feel very uncomfortable to swim in. I don't believe it's politically correct to go around correcting people who've been brought up in a way that their language isn't used in an offensive manner. I painted the lake as it is because it feels like people are silenced very quickly, the swim is too spiky. I also painted the fence around it because there's no standing up for yourself with these people and I attached moons to the fence because in astrology the moon represents emotions. Since being politically correct is a great outlet to project your own grievances on others. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.