An aerosol commission I had heaps of fun doing.
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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.
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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

Charcoal on Fabriano paper
​850 x 600 mm

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. 

After reaching 10k followers on Instagram I decided to give back and so I created a giveaway of this Jimi Hendrix drawing. The winner of this piece Taylor Hough has been a supporter of my art for a while which is great for me when a giveaway finds a home like this.
​Drawn with Charcoal on Fabriano

Commission by Emily in Australia, she requested a nude portrait. A portrait that represents resilience and strong-will in a woman. A task I was happy to undertake and very proud of the final product. I got my girlfriend to photograph Freddie nude in my studio as I orchestrated how I would like her to pose. I didn't have a cigarette so I rolled a bit of paper up for her to hold so I could improvise a cigarette and smoke in the drawing. I went with a negative effect for the smoke which gives a more 'sketchy' look to it. 

'Koru'
Charcoal on Fabriano 75 x 55cm
A piece I drew for my girlfriends birthday present as she wanted a New Zealand themed artwork so I chose the Koru as it symbolizes new beginnings, strength and growth which has been 3 massive motives in her life recently. I get to see it everyday in our room too which is not common for a piece of mine!

Thank you to Pouroto for allowing me to photograph him and draw him! I got my own page in the Whakatane paper today which is wicked. Awesome write up by Kathy from the Whakatane Beacon.