Abstracts
An abstract is an invitation, an offer I make to each viewer.
I invite you to complete the creative process through your personal act of observation, imagination, and interpretation.
Inks
This medium-size abstract is made with a combination of hand-ground Japanese ink and commercial Indian Ink. Applied to wet watercolour paper using a wall paper scraper, it is powerful, unsettling and mysterious.
42cm x 60cm
This bold splatter of pure black ink on white paper makes a simple, mysterious statement. It’s full of energy, but withholds meaning. It’s a large statement piece which will define any room it’s placed in.
60cm x 84cm
Ink on 320gsm Watercolour Paper
A large black-ink abstract created on handmade Indian paper. The ink was applied with a wallpaper scraper onto a part-wet, part-dry surface, creating an unstable, evolving energy to the piece. The paper is rough edge, giving an additional raw energy to the finished work.
58cm x 78cm
Ink on Handmade Paper
Acrylics
I wanted to bring together formal ‘space-shaping’ with random, organic accidents. The result makes me smile.
Ink on Handmade Paper
30cm x 21cm
I love the mix of formal and random in here. Somehow nodding to Eastern Art - yet totally not.
Ink on Handmade Paper
25cm x 21cm
I love Stockholm. I’ve worked there many times - training dancers mainly.
Something in these blocks evokes for me the stylish laid-backness of the place
Acrylic Paint on Canvas Board
20cm x 26cm
Storm is a visceral response to the raw force of nature — painted as Storm Eowyn rattled windows and sent shudders through the house. Amid the noise and chaos, this piece emerged as a distillation of energy, motion, and the creating of a space of personal calm.
Broad, sweeping acrylic strokes clash with sharp incisions and subtle light, suggesting wind-lashed hills, turbulent skies, and the fleeting warmth of sun through cloud. The palette is earthy, ominous and storm-washed — slate greys, soot black, ochres, and fleeting warmth in the orange hues — capturing the emotional and atmospheric weight of the storm itself.
This work is for those drawn to elemental power and the poetry of weather made visible.
Deep within or far beyond, there are things we cannot imagine.
'Beyond the Edge' explores the unknown spaces of the cosmos — or perhaps the mind. A mysterious, organic form drifts across a darkened, star-speckled field, surrounded by energetic color and motion. Is it planetary, biological, metaphysical? Is it deep in space, or an idea floating across the subconscious?
‘Beyond The Edge' is a painting of questions, not answers. It suggests forms we can neither name nor understand.
A shimmering metropolis drifts between reflection and imagination in 'Unreal City’. Vertical marks suggest urban skylines. Their mirrored forms ripple across a textured, aqueous surface. The boundary between sky and water is thin and trembling: two realms that practically. A burst of deep magenta disturbs the cool serenity, like emotion bursting through cool reflection.
Painted on wood, this piece is grounded in realism, yet remains evocative and ethereal, capturing the liminal beauty of cities, both real and imagined.
Over the years I’ve worked in many cities on rivers and by the sea: Melbourne, Brisbane, Mumbai, London, Thessaloniki, Stockholm and many others. This contains echoes of them all.
The basic paint here is a copper acrylic - which gives the picture a slight metallic sheen. I like how that’s at odds with its organic feel.
Acrylic and Charcoal on Paper
24cm x 32cm
From my window there are rough, scrubby fields, then a range of hills. At dawn this is where the light comes from.
Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50cm x 40cm
My garden is very wild. I like it that way. So do the birds, butterlies, dragonflies and assorted critters who live there.
Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50cm x 40cm
There’s something of the summer in this. I hope it gives you a chance to pause, as if in the shade of a quiet olive tree in the grounds of a Greek villa or a Mexican hacienda.
“Sunshine and Olive Trees” blends earthy greens, golden ochres, and deep Mediterranean blues into a layered abstraction evoking warmth, stillness, and dappled sunlight. Bold charcoal contours frame organic, flowing shapes, inviting viewers to linger in a space that feels both vivid and contemplative — like a summer afternoon held in memory.
Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas Board
60cm x 60cm
I love that this flickers in my imagination between being a figure and a landscape.
The confining lines seem like bonds ready to be broken.
Acrylic and Graphite on Cotton Watercolour Paper
30cm x 42cm
I was turbulent when I painted this. Sometimes I paint calmly - sometimes I paint myself into calmness!
Acrylic Paint on Canvas Board
60cm x 60cm
I love setting myself limits. Here I decided to use only black!
The end result reminded me of looking down on Greek islands and imagining all the boat journeys connecting them
Paint on Canvas Board
60cm x 60cm
This large abstract combines a violent splatter of black in with delicate straight lines of red pastel. The combination of chaos and containment creates a tension that asks many questions but leaves you to find the answers.
42cm x 60cm
Ink on 320 gsm Watercolour Paper