Sea acres national park Port Macquarie

Recent holiday with family at Port Macquarie was fun and fruitful with seascapes to paint.


We went for a walk at sunset to the Sea Acre national park- such a gorgeous place. Spotted hundreds of humpback whales- no wonder they beach themselves. Pandanus palms line the shores. Paradise ...

Northland in Lord Howe

After a month off painting, term 4 begins. I’m thrilled to be back. This is a painting of the northern end of Lord Howe, populated by forests and volcanic rock. The surf is pounding here - so different from the idyllic lagoon where the beach is sandy and the water calm.

Venice urbanscape

As an antidote to all those Lord Howe aerials I decided to paint Venice. All those buildings in glorious warm colours against the brilliant green canals.


Sadly this is last lesson for Carla's class this term. Over the break I hope to produce more for our Lord Howe exhibition.

Larger Lord Howe

To finish the aerial series and provide context I painted this of Lord Howe Island from a photo I took from the plane.





It's a magnificent destination-best snorkelling I've ever experienced in Australia- much better than the Great Barrier Reef.

Incredible Lord Howe reefs

Regular readers would know that I'm attempting to paint Lord Howe island for a joint exhibition with Coralie my friend. Coralie has demanded at least 6 paintings and I'm dragging the chain as I've only done two.







Well, I've doubled my output since a week ago with these aerial reef paintings. The colours are as true as I can get and yes, they are incredible. But what I really like is the new Liquitex ceramic stucco medium that Carla introduced. It has the consistency of cement but what an effect! Just the perfect piece for reefs, rocks, mountains.

Reef beach near Fairlight

Sydney can be so stunning in winter - the sun shines and it's just the right temperature for walking. We went for a walk from Balgowlah to Manly a few weeks ago and it was glorious.





At Reef Beach, we stopped to admire the view and the sparkle of the water. This painting is an excuse to use gel medium for a beachscape.

Rework of mangroves at Cook River

This old painting needed a lift so I asked Carla what to do.


And here it is -zing added with those lovely lemon yellow.