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This study series comments on time in Art. How is it important? Is it relevant? What part does it play on price and quality of both itself and the artist? it is a subject in the industry I am still trying to understand so this series offers a visual challenge to the concept of time. oil on canvas x4 For Sale @ Flagstaff Gallery, link in Bio 
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A conceptual painting done with oil. One bloom hill delivers the idea of connection between two people through two symbolic candles and smoke. 600x900mm Oil on canvas  A beautifully coloured Tui bird awakens its neighbours with his song of territorial stance. The morning chill makes for a misty voice as the light of dawn captures the array of colours the bird withholds. 700x900mm Oil on canvas  My giant White Rhino drawing has now sold to an awesome family! A lot of hard work and effort went into this piece and now I am very pleased that it has gone to a good home where it will be appreciated and gazed upon for years to come.  A mural commission for Kedgely Intermediate. Two of the 3 Sole Mio opera singers who attended this intermediate. Very smiley guys that will look great on this wall by the main field. My new biggest piece to date. This was a challenge to paint on weatherboard (an uneven surface) but a challenge accepted regardless! aerosol on weatherboard  A commission I completed in 2019 sitting in its new home looking awesome!  A commission by Universal music for a live painting at Waitangi @ Waititi, a festival in Glen Eden on Waitangi Day. This was a wicked experience, getting to work outside, working with an awesome music company, working live for the first time At a festival, appearing on live national television for the first time, and once again attempting a bigger and better Aerosol artwork. So much learnt and met some awesome people on the way! 2.4m x 3.6m Aerosol on Plywood  My first attempt at a portrait painting is an Indian man in his traditional dress wear. This image stood out to me straight away and I knew this was going to be my first painting. Working with colours has been a challenging fun task and will be more to come for sure! 500x400mm Oil on canvas  A cool piece I have been working on for some months now, but as I will be keeping this piece I had to create this drawing in my spare time which is not very often for me so I chipped away at it for some time. Very happy to finally get this finished, glad to not be parting with this piece for once so I’m excited to get it to the framers and hung up in my place! charcoal and colour pencil on paper 1050mm x 750mm Not for sale  So I had a week getting back to work for 2020 where I wanted to do something different and challenging so I decided to purchase some oil paints and brushes and a little canvas to attempt a little painting. I had to paint an eye, of course, as my first piece, I nice beautiful blue eye worked perfectly! I’m happy with how this painting turned out and I look forward to doing more and learning more and working with mixing and manipulating colours again! Oil on canvas.  Very happy to be finished with this awesome piece! Seeing it framed gives a huge sense of accomplishment and I look forward to getting it in Flagstaff Gallery.  Was a great opening night at the Kings Art Show this year. The 2019 show brought me two new sales and a lot of new faces! Awesome to have the model come along to the opening night too and meet potential buyers and organisers. But unfortunately neither of us got to meet the buyer of the piece. Very happy with the result!  Je Danse was an awesome project I had the pleasure of doing after discovering this awesome talent. Je Danse means ‘I dance’ in French which was beautifully named by my model in this picture, Aleksandra. A lot of planning and coordination went into this process and then drawing it created a lot of excitement and challenges. I was very impressed to learn a lot about pole dancing and what goes into the dance. A lot of strength and flexibility is only some of the things you must excel in to participate in this. So I only hope that by me creating a stance of which can look graceful and contemporary, but also showing the back muscle activation, that can tell a story more than just what you see. Charcoal on Lana paper 1m x 1.5m  I had the opportunity to apply my interest in mural art for this New Balance and Phantom Billboard collab of Kawhi Leonard on Khyber pass in Newmarket. NBA MVP was a fun mission painting and had a lot of cool support and feedback from it. Really keen to get more jobs like this and start developing my spray can skills more. Aerosol on plywood    Jean Shrimpton ‘The It Girl’ is 1 of 3 pieces I will be presenting in the Kings Art Show this year. Jean was an iconic name and face in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ and an awesome symmetrical face to reproduce on paper Charcoal on Fabriano 500mm x 700mm  A commission I received last year that I managed to get around to recently. This is a church in Hvar, Split, Croatia, in a neighbourhood where my client grew up. Not something I usually do but I am always up for something new and challenging and it proved to be a fun process! Charcoal on Lana paper 1m x 1.2m  Awesome evening at the Sir John Kirwan Tribute last night. Sold my drawing at auction to one of my collectors, only not going in his house with my two other pieces but in his box at Eden park! Good to catch up with a few legends of the game as well  A fun commission piece I drew from a photo reference by Eilish Burt Photography. 1m x 1.4 m Charcoal on Lana paper.   After sitting in the window of Parnell Gallery for a week my Gorilla drawing has now sold off to a great home. Now to get some money to The Dianne Fossey Fund!!  This drawing was a commission for my clients house. The reference photo was a 6" x 4" physical photo. It was quite difficult to use, me being a hyper-detailed artist, to recover detail from the photo and to enlarge it to the size needed but nonetheless I am happy with the result and the client was super happy too!  My second aerosol piece is Frida Kahlo. A famous Mexican painter from mid 20th century. She is an iconic person and I thought she would work well to spray paint! Bit tricky doing some of the smaller details but I picked up heaps of new techniques and learnt heaps! Im looking forward to my next piece!!  “Umurinzi” The Gorilla are divided into 2 species, the western and eastern gorilla. These two species have their own subspecies of which all are critically endangered. One of these subspecies are known to have only a few hundred of them left which creates a task for conservationists to protect them and keep them alive. Many people have dedicated their lives to protecting the poached and imposed Gorilla. Love for protecting this human-like primate has brought people all over the world to visit them and work alongside locals to enlarge their population status. Protection funds and conservation teams survive on donations and tourist visits which is why I am planning to do both. With hoping to visit Africa next year, I will be donating $1000 of the money received from the buyer of this piece to The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. This conservation team work in Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo doing scientific research, education and physical movements in the efforts to help species of Gorilla to survive. This piece is for sale so contact me if interested. Charcoal on Lana paper  So Tim and I decided to make use of the wall in his garage to use some spray cans. I had never used aerosols for artwork before but had been inspired by Owen Dippie, a well-know mural artist from NZ. I wanted to paint something quite contrasty and after a couple days I came up with this. Now I am just starting to think of many more images Id like to spray. 
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