A Storm is Brewing
Acrylic Mixed Media
300mm x 900mm
For Sale
$750.00
Inspiration behind this artwork is the view you get from sitting near Cave Rock Sumner looking toward Scarborough!
Artwork, has a Tissue Textured background with the rocks made up of a rough rock like texture, if you are a textral person and like 2d artwork this is the one for you. 
*Piwauwau* (Rock Wren)
Acrylic
100mm x 100mm
For Sale
$55.00
This Artwork can be viewed and purchased from
Cafe Mint
2 Beckford Road, St Martins
Christchurch
Just a little info on these truly beautiful birds!!
These Tiny rock wrens or Piwauwau are approx 10 centimetres long, from its bill to the end of its very distinct short tail. These we birds are found above the treeline, between 900 and 2,500 metres altitude. They live under large boulders at the foot of screes and rock falls. In summer rock wrens hop and buzz about on short rounded wings, feeding on insects or collecting materials to build their nests. Once winter snows arrive, they survive in pockets of space in their rock or scrub shelter. Rock wrens fly close to the ground, their flights rarely exceeding 30 metres. They move astonishingly quickly, diving in and out of crevices. On the ground they bob energetically up and down, flicking their wings.
“Kea”
Acrylic
100mm x 100mm
For Sale
$55.00
Here is a little info on this cheeky wee bird!
The call of ke-aa ringing through the air is deeply evocative of New Zealands Southern Alps. Kea are parrots that have adapted to life in the mountains. Kea are either loved for their elaborate antics or disliked for the damage they can do. Their intelligent curiosity equips them well for the harsh conditions in which they live. Kea investigate anything and everything with their immensely strong beaks, tongues, and hand-like claws. They work out how to open all sorts of containers, particularly rubbish bins, in search of titbits. In mountain huts and villages it is a challenge to devise a kea-proof container. Residents who leave doors open may return to find upholstery and mats shredded
Cafe’ Mint
2 Beckford Road
St Martins
Acrylic
Beautiful NZ Tui.
For Sale $140.00
These Artworks can be viewed and purchased from
Cafe’ Mint
Wairakei Road
Burnside
LAST SNOWFALL
760mm x 255mm x 40mm
Acrylic Mixed Media
For Sale
$690.00
Takamatua, a lovely Bay in the Banks Peninsula on the way to Akaroa… There are lovely Wineries around this area… well worth a visit! The vines and leaves inspired by grapevines and the vineyards around Banks Peninsula and hand sculptured using my signature 2d style with genuine 24c gold leaf rubbed over the leaves!
Tekapo
Acrylic on Canvas
300mm x 1200mm
Harakeke Gold
Acrylic Mixed Media
I have been working on a new mini series inspired by the “Masters” each artwork is painted on very good quality watercolour Paper and painted with Acrylics.
( all my artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity)
This artwork comes unframed.
1st master mini painting – Mona Lisa
Just finished this Acrylic on Paper …. I am so loving painting fun portraits so have combined my new-found love of portraits and my old love of Butterflies …
Butterflies from Top to Bottom are as follows… Small Thyridia, Blue Admiral, Monarch, Blue Pansy, Eurasian Comma and the last one a Brown-Veined White butterfly
“Masked”
Graphite drawing on Hot Press Paper, the eyes I have coloured using Water Coloured Pencils
Graphite - Portrait
Acrylic on Hot Press Paper
In the Park - Acrylic on hot press paper
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I have had heaps of fun playing around with different quirky portraits so check out my latest …. My quirky Mona Lisa…
My quirky Mona Lisa ...
I have been playing around with blending Oil Sticks and Oil Pastels trying to use as many colours as I can to create some Portraits…
Meet ” Naranja”
Naranja - Oil Sticks
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Here I have posted portraits that I have based people or portraits that have been done before….
1) This portrait was inspired by my visit to the Louvre … I love anything to do with Egypt ! not sure why I am so fixated with Egypt but I love anything Egyptian ….
So this portrait I have created was inspired by a wax painting on wood ,Funerary portrait of a young woman known as “Portrait of the Faiyum”
I have painted this on Hot Press Paper using Golden Acrylic Paint.
Portrait of the Faiyum
Inspired by a tutortial by Mystele via www.willowingart.org
Portraits Pulled Art - I have started with a blank canvas as you would say in this case a blank sheet of watercolour paper .
Pulled art simply implies to what image you can pull from the background… I have written words, scribbled and made heaps of different shapes onto the paper, (using, pencils and pastels and acrylic paint) and then continued to do this with several layers until I am happy with what I see… then I have Pulled a Portrait out of the shapes that have appeared through the top layer… You can pull any picture out of this, but I am just working on creating all different types of portraits at this stage so I am looking for any type of facial features I can see, like a nose lips eyes etc… so here are a couple of my Not so Beautiful Beauties …..
Green with Envy
Going around in Circles
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