Fruits of my Labour

$1,100.00

92 x 3cm
x 92cm

This is a painting of a pear with a cow hide skin growing from a hand shaped tree with sparkles on it, the inside of the pear has a ladder and birds flying from it. I had this canvas sitting waiting to be started and I just decided that I wanted to paint a pear with a cow hide skin in a dim setting, I had no intention with meaning behind it, so like a viewer seeing the painting for the first time I decided what it meant for me after I completed it. I’m a big fan of cow hides, using the whole cow. I have a few and to me they’re a medal, like when you make one the star of you’re home you’re showing off the sacrifices the cow made throughout it’s life, I painted (and own) holstein cow hides which is the cow that produces milk, so the idea of how many babies and people in general that cow gave it’s nutrients to and the hard work comes to mind when I wonder about a life it would have had. Pears in my paintings also play along with the metaphor when people say something went “pear shaped”. So I personally see it that the pear is the life/home I’m building through my hand crafted career. Oil Based, signed with a certificate of authenticity and ready to hang.

Hiatus

$600.00

49.5 x 1.7cm
x 40cm

I made this painting reminiscent of time when I disappear in terms of the internet. When I was younger I like to disable my personal social media accounts over the summers, forcing people to actually interact with me like they would in the early 2000's, via mobile. When they would, the time was always more respected. I liked that no one would know what I'm up to unless they see me and ask, somewhat mysterious or a surprise. So, I painted the cactus (my cactuses represent human) in all the colours, because my hiatuses are always the most fun, also because when someone posts more colourful posts it reflects their state of mind. You don't know what's making this cactus rainbow, but you can see it is. Hand stretched, has a certificate of authenticity and sold with hooks ready to hang!

Printing Thoughts

$390.00

30.5 x 3cm
x 61cm

I made this painting after a session where I recorded colouring in my self- published colouring in book, so I set the camera to record the painting and wondered were my piece of paper was, as if I needed it to copy onto the canvas, I was still in colouring in mode. Then I thought I should make a painting of a brain connected to a printer “printing” the paintings out. Hand stretched and always sold with hooks a certificate of authenticity and ready to hang!

Stranger

$330.00

30 x 3cm
x 46cm

This idea came to mind a few months ago after a guy who was learning to be a journalist asked me for an interview, I eventually asked for it to be removed from everywhere. After pondering on this idea for a while I began to realise that most, if not all the people in my life don't really or entirely know me. Some had been in my life the entire time and couldn't even tell you my pass times, other's I had just met and after a few meetings they still hadn't figured out I'm an artist (which is what my life revolves around). Imagine every second of your life is written in a book, the book grows each day and someone comes along and rips out a few paragraphs and runs off as if they've figured you out 100%. That's what I've painted here, the person runs off and in the background flails the page into the wind as birds pick off the words and leave them scattered. No one ever truly knows you and no one ever will. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, although always sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity!

Anxiety

$330.00

40.5 x 3cm
x 30cm

I thought I'd make a painting showing how I'd assume anxiety feels, although I don't really relate to the painting which made it more difficult to make it look different to how it looks. Over-all, ironically, I still don't vibe with it. Looks like that's what happens when you paint about something you don't know! I've painted a perfectly shaped mask hiding a face which is melting away, the surroundings are glasses falling and breaking and clouds cover the eye holes making it dark for the person behind the mask. This canvas is hand stretched, will be sold with hooks and has a certificate of authenticity.

Devils Lake

$300.00

38 x 3cm
x 38cm

This is a painting inspired by an event, Uranus transiting my 7th house, where you tend to shake off relationships that aren't working. I had some people from a past life lure their way back in only to notice the same patterns started before I'd even seen them. The lake has spikes, I imagine how uncomfortable that lake would be to swim in.. spiky water which is fenced off, a barrier. I've painted a hand (mine) stretching down from the sky dipping it's finger in the water through the fence, expressing how much of a stretch it would be for me to actually give that lake any real attention. Oil based, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity!

Religion of Time

$300.00

30 x 1.7cm
x 38cm

This painting was inspired by a little tangent I went on after being asked the question “What's your biggest weakness” when I put myself up for an opportunity. I ended up saying something along the lines of “I don't get why people get so bothered when you're late or bad with time.. It's like they've chosen to live their life strictly to a religion of time and expect everyone else to do the same in dictatorship. I don't live my life by that religion and that should be acceptable”. I found that a little funny, hyperbolic yet resinates. So this is my painting to represent it. The statue is my head, I guess, just a female, made of sand emerging from the ground and cut off as if it's thoughts are purely time. My clock has no order, the numbers float away, turning into yellow birds. The water also represents the constant flowing where you'll (in general) never get a grip. It's hand stretched with a certificate of authenticity and always sold with hooks.

Primary Flavours

$280.00

30 x 3cm
x 38cm

This is a painting I made based on the concept of primary colours, where you can mix yellow, blue and red in any combination along with the shades black and white to make any colour. I went through a mini phase in 2020 trying to improve my cooking and thought why can't making flavours be like making colours? Why can't we assign sour sweet ect. In order to make it clear what goes “well” together. The painting is a skewer of a lemon (yellow/ sour), blueberry (blue/ sweet) and chilli (red/ spicy) dripping down their colours where the drips mix to form a watermelon which floats to the surface, in the background are oranges and cucumbers already formed. This painting warrants a second thought after I show off my painting “Cheese”, one I made a few weeks later after learning something about my brain and flavours. Hand stretched and always sold with hooks a certificate of authenticity and ready to hang!

Seventh Lifetime

$250.00

30.5 x 3cm
x 23cm

I started this with the intention to make a painting with a cow hide floor in the desert, where the hide is the ground. I then made the painting as I went along and painted bones then birds emerging from the hide, flying into the clouds and seedlings sprouting. When I finished the painting I decided to name it after what comes to mind when I look at it, reincarnation comes to mind. I named it 7th lifetime because I wanted to leave the feeling with the viewer that it's a cycle on repeat. In the distance a red planet, red for energy. This artwork isn't one of my hand-stretched ones, has a certificate of authenticity and always sold with hooks ready to hang!

Cheese

$250.00

40.5 x 1.5cm
x 30cm

A few weeks back my mates asked me what this juice that I made tasted like and I told them.. “round and brown”. I repeated myself because I often confuse people with some of the things I say and they told me “Oh you're synesthetic”. I had no clue what they meant.. At first I thought that meant that you see colours with music although soon learnt it includes any trigger of another sense when using a different one. After a week of going in a google rabbit hole I learnt that I do a few.. But this painting is based on tasting the shapes and colours of flavours. This is cheese, I'm lactose intolerant so there's only one yellow cheese I can buy, it doesn't say what type and this is what I see when I taste cheese. A rich smooth orange/red brown (like the Australian earth colour, the yellow sunset is the sharp aftertaste that follows, yet, I'm not focused on that) and the cheese has a wide flavour, so I express the wide-ness as a clear sheet (warmer than glass) floating over and moulding with the curves of the ground that stretches as far as you can see. Oil based, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity!

Sewing

$250.00

30 x 3cm
x 46cm

I decided to make this artwork after painting “Avoidance” inspired by the way the ground looked in my previous painting, it reminded me of sewing. So I made this one with similar looking ground and a sewing needle from the sky sewing the ground together. A trail of green thread creates seedlings and the excess thread falls to the ocean in the background which birds emerge from This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, has a certificate of authenticity and always sold with hooks ready to hang!

Round and Brown

$200.00

30.5 x 3cm
x 45.6cm

A while back I purchased a date, banana and coconut juice, my mates asked me what it tasted like and I told them “round and brown”, synaesthesia Usually I'd get a response something along the lines of being called weird.. and I'd learnt to brush it off, recently learning that it's the way my brain connects senses. When I taste food a visual composition accompanies it. When I tasted the banana, date and coconut juice I'd see a clear and matte white sphere floating around with a cool breezy environment, I'd also see a shade of brown emerge on the side that's faded away on the sphere. So this is that composition that I see in my minds eye, only more detailed as if it were a landscape. Hand stretched, sold with a certificate of authenticity and hooks ready to hang!