Winter Blooms
Winter flowering species like gordonia and camellia make good subjects for still life painting. Their beautiful blooms last well in a vase.
Markets
Many vibrant market scenes can be seen on weekend mornings around Brisbane. They make great subject matter for paintings.
Portrait Class
A collection of portrait studies in oil and pastel completed over a number of years from various Life Portrait sessions that I attended.
Beautiful Bulbs
Each spring beautiful bulbs produce spectacular flowers in a great range of colours. Making a choice of still life subject between these flamboyant flowers is sometimes hard.
Queensland Homes
Old Queensland houses often feature extensive back gardens and an architecture typical of the period in which they were built. High stumps, window hoods, stove recesses were all common on these old homes.
Prunus Flowers
Prunus flowers have been used as a ceramic decoration in many parts of the world, but I particularly like the Mak’Merry studio version for their bold shapes and bright colours. This early 20th Scottish ceramic studio deserves to be warmly remembered.
Gardens and Pools
Plants, gardens and pools have been a lifelong interest of mine and paintings of gardens are often part of my work.
Nasturtium Still Life
Nasturtium leaves and flowers are always a popular still life subject. They are always colourful and sometimes triffid like, giving rise to a great variety of still life paintings.
Horses in Paintings
I like horses and have many sketchbooks of horse drawings to use as the source material for paintings.
Enamel Coffee Pots
Still life paintings showing enamel coffee pots have been displayed as a group. Many of the coffee pots a vividly coloured.