2024 painting

2024 My excitement for abstract painting doesn’t diminish with time

A confusing abstract painting incorporating shapes from packaging and canvas byproducts. Black vertical lines with red, purple and sky blue over orange.
Rent to Buy
60x60cm
An abstract painting created using a section of leaf net veins outlined in white, positioned on top a dark green background with a pink-purple curved element intersecting it.
Converted Gumnut
30x30cm
Abstract painting with 2 circles, a pale pink central one with a textured abstract shape, and a dark purple outer with an orange curve, on a pale green background.
Footpath Landscape with Shadow 35x35cm
An abstract oil painting featuring an organic red shape with a network of yellow lines and dots centred on a black textured background.
Oct29 Red Added
30x30cm
A painted red-brown shape that 'might resemble' a fish or missile - it is an enlargement of a small plastic fastener. Painted on washy textured teal green background.
Back to Basics
91x61cm
An abstract painting featuring red shapes, one resembles a human form with an arm towards a dark form. With a buff ochre background.
Looking for Landscape
60x60cm
An abstract oil painting with a light purple organic network line painted over the deep reds and earthy tones of an older painting surrounded by a dark background.
Reworked Oil Dot with Net Vein
30x30cm
An abstract painting featuring bold shapes in shades of purple, black, and white, with a brush textured background.
Conversation with the Landscape 50x70cm
Abstract painting featuring a green vertical shape on a dark background with blue and yellow elements.
Reworked and Reworked
30x30cm
Post Minimal Wire 30x42cm
A stylised painting of a headland in orange and pale blue with a white sky. in the centre is a line drawn rectangle where the colours change texture.
Headland 42x30cm
The Conversation Continues 30x42cm
Yellow Ripples 59x42cm
Magenta Ripples 59x42cm
Magenta and Grey Ripples
59x42cm

My excitement for painting doesn’t diminish with time as I continue experimenting using chance and random marks. Along with plant net-veins, by-products and found objects they continue supporting my key concept of variety, and the elegance of Post Minimal processes adding to the excitement. This year I finally settled into a routine in my ‘back of garage studio space’ in Lane Cove and fitted into a more productive direction.

2024 Working on paper offers me immediacy and speed while avoiding preciousness

This page shows some of the many works on paper I made during 2024, using what I called my table top studio, where watercolour, pencil and natural dyes were my main medium. This is a selection of abstract works on paper, continuing my ongoing discovery using found objects, shapes and post minimalism processes and continues my experimenting with chance, found objects, natural forces and time.