Red wine and Pomegranates

"Red wine and Pomegranates" - SOLD

Apples

"Apples" - SOLD

Red Wine and Roses

This is the latest still life painting that I have completed to date. I feel it is the best work that I have done so far. This will be a hard one to part with but it is for sale.

Azaelias

This a recent paintin that I did of some Azaelias. It won a highly commended award at the Dobell Art Festival this year. For sale $250

Mums Roses

This is a painting that I did for my mother for christmas. I loved the reflections in this one although a challenge to paint!!

Blue Willow

For Sale $350.

The Ginger Jar

This is acrylic on board. A few of the chinese pieces were picked up from a antique gallery in Pymble.

Brad's Second Commission

This is the second commision painting that I did for my cousin Brad. Brad and I were talking one day and he has a art collection that he adds to constantly. He has a few criteria to his collection. The first being a water theme and the second being that he has to know and or preferably met the artist or the artist is still alive. He said he would like a painting with the water theme included also a still life would be ok but not in the traditional still life sense. That started me thinking and I came up with the following painting. It is meant to be the morning after the night before where there may have been a party and the vase and the flowers were tipped over and water spilt. To me it means that although something so beautiful can be fragile as well and I came up with the name "Fallen Beauty." The roses came from my sisters rose garden including the large pink one which has a very intoxicating perfume that was lovely to paint by. Enjoyed doing the reflections in this one.

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Brad's First Commission

This was the first of two commisions that I did for my cousin Brad. He is an architect and was project manager for the new Aldi Store in Toronto. This was a painting as a thankyou gift for the owner of the property. My cousin asked me to bring in elements that would be familiar to the recipient of the painting. The roses that the owner likes to grown where given to my cousins wife. They were then brought over for me to photograph for the painting and then to enjoy their intoxicating perfume. Just wonderful!!! The book is of the family history of the owners of the land and the wine was grown and made by the owner himself. The painting was given to the owner at a dinner after the official opening and as you can see by the photo below that the recipient was ecstatic and very moved by the work. A big challenge and one of my biggest paintings to date. It is the first of my paintings in oils a medium that I am enjoying very much.

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The owner of the new Aldi Store site in Toronto receiving his painting from my cousin Brad.

Summer Harvest

This is a still life that I did as a raffle prize for the Toronto District Garden Club. I found it a very interesting painting to do as I particularly liked the effect of the basket. The flowers are not actually flowers but are known as Kale a form of ornamental cabbage grown in gardens for their various colours. Once again I have picked subjects with alot of detail which I seem to have a nack of doing. I don't mind detail to add to the final effect.

The Silver Goblet

This was my first attempt at painting a still-life. The greatest challenge for me was to create the illusion of silverware without using silver paint!

This painting was a real learning process for me.

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