I work from my home in Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand. Trained at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (MFA Painting 1992), my main interest has always been colour, shape and the communication of a sense of the ineffable.
Over the years this endeavour has taken the form of works in oil on canvas and board from the highly textural to very flat surfaces; gouache on paper works and at one point what I call “collage drawings.”
The subject matter is always the same thing; summed up beautifully by these quotes from Vedanta:
“There is this unchanging, eternal, peaceful, blissful entity called the Self. We ought to get to know more about it. We might learn something.”
-H.H. Shantanand Saraswati
“What brings him back to himself is the interior light, and not exterior objects.”
-Tagore