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  • Spring – Olive and lamb

    Spring – Olive and lamb

    2014
    oil on canvas
    26 x 30cm
    $600

    Olive and her lamb in 2013, when Olive was a maiden ewe.

  • Spring – Natalie and her lamb

    Spring – Natalie and her lamb

    2014
    oil on canvas
    26 x 30cm
    SOLD

    Natalie and her lamb in 2013, when Natalie was a maiden ewe.

  • Spring – Dave

    Spring – Dave

    2014
    oil on canvas
    26 x 21cm
    SOLD

    Dave was a bottle fed lamb who like to sit with me when I was drawing.

  • Spring – Bay horse in a Storm

    Spring – Bay horse in a Storm

    2014
    oil on board
    40 x 32cm
    SOLD

    Junior in the Ram Paddock. The spring in 2013 was very wet.

  • Spring – Wet Day 2013

    Spring – Wet Day 2013

    2014
    oil on board
    30 x 38.5cm
    $400

    Sheep in the Ram Paddock on a wet day in Spring

  • Summer – Rod’s Harvest

    Summer – Rod’s Harvest

    2014
    oil on canvas
    51cm x 61cm
    SOLD

    Storm approaching the harvest of our neighbours hay bales.

  • Summer – Harvest

    Summer – Harvest

    2014
    oil on canvas
    30 x 38cm
    $550

    Round hay bales with approaching storm in December.

  • Summer – Blue Tag Lamb and Black Lamb

    Summer – Blue Tag Lamb and Black Lamb

    2014
    oil on board
    14 x 30cm
    SOLD

    A study of the black and white lambs.

  • Summer – Hoggets

    Summer – Hoggets

    2014
    oil on board
    22x 30cm
    SOLD

    Hoggets – young sheep

  • Summer – Hot Evening

    Summer – Hot Evening

    2014
    oil on board
    60 x 90cm
    $850

    A large cloud that isn’t bringing rain dominated the hot dry afternoon and evening.

  • Summer – Doe

    Summer – Doe

    2014
    oil on board
    29 x 29.5cm
    SOLD

    I saw a doe in the shade of the wattle trees from my studio. With her back to me she appeared vulnerable. She is beautiful but she is a feral pest.

  • Summer – The Black Sheep

    Summer – The Black Sheep

    2014
    oil on canvas
    26 x 30.5cm
    SOLD

    The black hoggett contrasted with the summery paddock

  • Summer – Vision

    Summer – Vision

    2014
    oil on board
    29 x 29.5cm
    $375

    The white cockatoos landed on a white gum, a cacophony of sound, illuminated by the late afternoon sun. White cockatoos are in plague proportions.

  • Summer – Late Afternoon

    Summer – Late Afternoon

    2014
    oil on canvas
    20 x 41cm
    SOLD

    Radar and Junior in the distance with the late afternoon sun highlighting them.

  • Summer – Shiny shiny Morning

    Summer – Shiny shiny Morning

    2014
    oil on canvas
    51 x 41cm
    SOLD

    A hot summer’s morning the eucalypts are shiny on the side of the hill. Shiny, shiny is a quote from the movie ‘Little Fish’, “shiny shiny girl” who isn’t so shiny anymore, but struggles on. One of the eucalypts has died recently and the trunks of others stand as sentinals to a lost era, before the effects of land degradation and the stresses of climate change.

  • Summer – Hillside

    Summer – Hillside

    2014
    oil on board
    56 x 92cm
    SOLD

    A hot summer morning looking up at the hillside and the trees, grasses and tracks for the animals.

  • Summer – Hot Morning in First Blackwood Paddock

    Summer – Hot Morning in First Blackwood Paddock

    2014
    oil on board
    30 x 40cm
    $500

    A hot summer’s morning looking over the Blackwood Paddock with the horses and sheep.

  • Autumn – Radar

    Autumn – Radar

    2014
    oil on board
    30 x 39cm
    SOLD

    Radar eating his hay under the Elm Trees whilst the leaves gently fall down.

  • Autumn – Two Bay Horses

    Autumn – Two Bay Horses

    2014
    oil on board
    32 x 41cm
    $650

    Radar and Junior eating their hay under the Elm Trees in Autumn

  • Winter – Fence

    Winter – Fence

    2014
    oil on board
    46 x 49cm
    SOLD

    4/03/2015

  • Winter – Black and White

    Winter – Black and White

    2014
    oil on canvas
    20 x 25cm
    $350

    The black and white lambs in winter.

  • Winter – Two Ewes

    Winter – Two Ewes

    2014
    oil on board
    23.5 x 32cm
    SOLD

    In the winter I went to feed some ewes in the Heap paddock. Ragged Jack had snow on it and the ewes were pregnant and content.

  • Winter – Ewes in Heap Paddock

    Winter – Ewes in Heap Paddock

    2014
    oil on board
    30 x 35cm
    SOLD

    In the winter, feeding some ewes in the Heap paddock. Ragged Jack had snow on it and the ewes were pregnant and content.

  • Winter – After Shearing

    Winter – After Shearing

    2014
    oil on canvas
    56 x 61cm
    $800

    Ewes in the Driveway Paddock after being shorn.

  • Winter – Radar enjoying the Afternoon sun

    Winter – Radar enjoying the Afternoon sun

    2014
    oil on canvas
    20 x 26cm
    SOLD

    Without his rug Radar often stands with his back to the winter sun so he can enjoy the warmth it gives.

  • Winter – Morning Feed

    Winter – Morning Feed

    2014
    oil on canvas
    36 x 46cm
    SOLD

    Feeding the horses with some pet sheep trying to steal the lucerne.

  • Winter – Lucy

    Winter – Lucy

    2014
    oil on board
    29 x 31cm
    SOLD

    Lucy, after being shorn, sitting in the morning sunshine chewing her cud.

  • Spring – Fence between

    Spring – Fence between

    2014
    oil on board
    46 x 49cm
    SOLD

    Fence between the Blackwoods and the Driveway paddock in early Spring. The wattle tree in the distance illuminated in the afternoon light.

  • Spring – Lookout

    Spring – Lookout

    2014
    oil on board
    31 x 35cm
    $400

    Spring time and new life with pregnant ewes on the Lookout.

  • Spring – Wattle Tree

    Spring – Wattle Tree

    2014
    oil on board
    31 x 31cm
    SOLD

    A wattle tree in Nesbitts in full bloom, with pregnant ewes.

  • Spring – From Driveway Paddock

    Spring – From Driveway Paddock

    2014
    oil on board
    31 x 33cm
    $450

    The driveway is illuminated in the afternoon. One of the white gums has died and looks golden in the light.

  • Spring – Ewe and Lamb

    Spring – Ewe and Lamb

    2014
    oil on canvas
    20 x 26cm
    SOLD

    Playing with the idealic notion of pastoral and archetypal Madonna and Child.. Ewe and lamb, birth, renewal and mothering.

  • Spring – Gorgeous Lamb

    Spring – Gorgeous Lamb

    2014
    oil on canvas
    26 x 30cm
    SOLD

    Gorgeous lamb was a particularly cute lamb with a dear old mother.

  • Spring – The Boundary

    Spring – The Boundary

    2014
    oil on board
    27 x 30cm
    $275

    An old ewe was concerned as to how far her lamb wandered, out of her sight, past the boundary of her comfort zone.

  • Spring – Twins

    Spring – Twins

    2014
    oil on canvas
    20 x 26cm
    SOLD

    Nancy’s lambs Andrea and Amy, a few days old.

  • Spring – Evening

    Spring – Evening

    2014
    oil on board
    31 x 29.5cm
    SOLD

    Blue smoke was hanging in the valley as the evening turned pink.

  • Spring – Neighbours horses

    Spring – Neighbours horses

    2014
    oil on board
    30 x 30cm
    SOLD

    My neighbours horses having a frolic as the late afternoon sun highlights the trees behind them.

  • Summer – Hunting Grounds, Cherry Tree

    Summer – Hunting Grounds, Cherry Tree

    2014
    oil on canvas
    55.5 x 60.5cm
    SOLD

    This Native Cherry tree is on a track through our private forest reserve. This feels like a special tree when it is illuminated in the late afternoon light. It is in an area that has been used for hunting by recent hunters and I imagine past indignenous peoples. Now the deer camp under this tree and eat the ripened cherrys.