It seemed so peaceful on the path I walked past the beach that day. Acrylic on stretched canvas 350mm high x 450mm wide x 40mm deep

It just happened and seemed right to paint it, my mind was wandering along the shoreline and I remember a woman strolling in and out of the small ocean surge at the waters edge.(Acrylic on stretched canvas 380mm high x 750mm wide x 40mm deep)

Gulls out for breakfast, for you and I its a choice we make to dine out but for the Gulls its a matter of survival. I was watching with curiosity the chase and find process that this pair followed. Acrylic on stretched canvas 350mm high x 450mm wide x 40mm deep

I went down to my favourite holiday destination for a few days  and I arrived at the surf lifesaving club to find a storm front delivering containers and debri from the container ship the "Rena" which grounded on the "Astrolab" reef in the Bay of Plenty.

I noticed a container then another and another arriving through the storm surf onto our beach along with various packages containing everything from milk powder to rice. The second day, I arrived to see small penguins and other wildlife dead on the beach covered in heavy engine oil.

We have to learn from disasters like this and try to put in place automated warning systems along with more stringent rules and regulations to try and stop  this happening again. This is my version of what I saw through the driving rain and surf being driven onto our beach that day. Acrylic on stretched canvas 500mm x 250mm x 40mm.

I had a real urge to capture my impression of the Tsunami in Japan and the ruin and devistation it caused. The follow on from the nuclear fall out and destruction of towns and lives is represented in this painting. I hope we all understand and learn lessons from what was a devistating event and what is a tradegy that should never be forgotten in respect to life on our planet.

I remember many walks along the beach at night with the moon casting a watcfull eye over the developing storm. The smell of the ocean and that storm breeze in your face is like no other that I have experienced. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 600mm wide x 600mm High x 40mm deep

Rainbow beach was inspired by all of the bad weather lately and the calm after the storm. I enjoy mixing the colours to portray the dimensions of twilight that come with abnormal atmospherics.(Acrylic on stretched canvas 715mm wide by 560mm high)

When we truly understand the balance between health life and the nature that surrounds us we find inner peace. I was asked to consider this concept when creating a painting for a friend, I hope this is what she had in mind and also that I have captured the beauty that is life.

As a child do you remember laying in the sand dunes and peering at the setting sun through the grasses growing in the dunes? I remember back to those days when our minds drifted off to far away places as the sun set on another day of adventure, only to rise again in the morning casting a different set of shadows from another direction (Acrylic on stretched Canvas 600mm by 600mm by 20mm)

I was just stroking the brush through the paint onto the canvas and this eventuated, sometimes rainy summer days allow the mind to wander and create. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 760mm wide x 380mm high x40mm deep).

I was sitting on the beach taking in all that surrounded me and admiring the pure formation of the waves along with the sounds of the lonely shoreline (Acrylic on stretched canvas 900 mm high by 700 mm wide)

 I was out in the garden today cutting flax leaves and spotted a Lady Bug crawling about from flax to flax so I captured it on canvas. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 760mm high by 380mm wide).

A day at the beach was inspired by exactly that, a day at the beach. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 510mm wide by 255mm high)

I saw it I painted it.

I imagined  a storm decending from the heavens turning the peace of the country into a caldron of furry and destruction. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 380mm high x 750mm wide x 40mm deep)

I imagined the lonley sailor fishing to provide his family with food

I think Maybe this is the right way up but thats open to your thoughts, regardless though this sums up my impression of recession and all that it is.

I was in the garden tonight and heard the rustling of leaves and I turned and caught the stunning glow of wild flowers in the light of the setting sun. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 350mm high x 180mm wide x 40mm deep)

Hmmmmmmmmmmm  to much drink at the end of the brush, I think its best you be the judge (Acrylic on stretched canvas 180mm high x 350mm wide x 40mm deep)

The lines of battle are drawn in every conflict and engagement increases or decreases in respect to ground gained.

My perception of life is that the further we escalate an issue or problem the more grief and ultimately hurt and pain occurs.

I have called this painting conflict and its my observation of the military actions abroad. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 405mm high x 300mm wide x 40mm deep)

After the earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand I started to imagine the interaction of the plates shifting and the collision of solid objects. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 750mm high x 380mm wide x 40mm deep)

A friend suggested that I paint dawn on the prairie so I did and I imagined waking as the cowboys did many years ago. As they looked through the prairie grass at the early morning rays of the sun and the smell of fresh coffee and beans. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 300mm x 300mm x 25mm deep) Thanks for the inspiration Tom.

Sadly I learned today that my friend Tom passed away, he was a gentleman amoung gentlemen and I am very pleased to say I knew him and that he called me a friend. RIP Amigo.

After painting southern islands I thought of the wildlife and Orca came to mind and there they are. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 760mm wide x 380mm high x40mm deep).

Southern Islands just happened and I am still not sure of where the inspiration came from? (Acrylic on stretched canvas 500mm high x 600mm wide).

Whispering Grass was created by my observation of people and their need to be noticed. I sometimes wonder why the human race has to find the need to get involved in each others lives and have a positive or negative impact just to be heard. When ever the wind blows you can gaurantee the grass will whisper. (Acrylic on stretched canvas 600mm wide by 310mm high by 40 mm deep)

Looking across the fields and seeing where the horizon meets the vista of fields urged me to put paint on canvas (Acrylic on stretched canvas 380mm by 380mm by 40mm deep)

This painting was my first real attempt at painting, having never been taught or given instruction I just let the brushes portray what I thought about. I believe you need to create from your own impression of something and your vision of how it should be will emerge on the canvas.
If there is an artists rule book I have not read it 
Acrylic on stretched canvas 760mm x 380mm x 40mm.