Motivation

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From one generation to the next, the way the world is run has not changed. With the internet and social media, what has changed is our awareness. The veil on human nature has been lifted and we see a world being destroyed by greed and the battle for money, power and control. The only way I can see, to balance the ugly, is to expose the darkness and add some beauty to the world.

 

I have always had a strong sense of fairness and justice and that coupled with being creative has lead me down a path of using art for social messaging. When topics are taboo art becomes the vehicle to attract public attention to a story that needs to be told. 

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Together with PLANET A2025 and Matriarch of the Modern Man my art style encompasses both social messaging, environmental awareness and timeless beauty, making the works both thought-provoking and visually captivating.

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About

 

For me, finding art was an exploration. You explore your creativity with different styles to find out who you are and what you love and go where it takes you. You look for what you are most comfortable with and what becomes your passion.

 

Photography sparked my creativity and I developed my art from there. This evolved into servicing the top end of the Sydney advertising industry in the area of photo composite, retouching and darkroom special effects before computers or photoshop. 10,000 hours in the darkroom creating magic from an art directors imagination. Production managers expected picture perfect, with the mind set that consumers like to associate with perfection. So, over 20 years last century picture perfect was in-grained into me. It's where I come from.

 

With my current series I produce a digital montage, using all my previous image creation skills, and use that as a template for brush work reminiscent of the renaissance masters to create startling realism. I love the 'Fine Art' style, it's me. I have gone full circle from picture perfect to painterly and abstract then back to picture perfect. And once again have found my place and it's paradoxical different.

 

In the 19th century, around the time of the advent of photography, picture perfect was still the norm and impressionists where the rebels. I've turned that on its head. My 'Fine Art' realism in the style of Romanticism rebels against the now norm and the painterly status quo which suits my rebellious nature, in a subtle and unpretentious way, and flows into my work as required.

 

If I have a story to tell that is best suited to contemporary or impressionist style then I will wonder down that path as seen in "Greek Gods", "Oceanids" and "Power of One". My latest series "Space Time" is a balance between my preferred styles; a transition towards future abstract.

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Art Timeline

 

BODY OF WORK 2000 to 2022

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(1) Photography 

(2) Ferns

(3) Minimalist

(4) Abstract

(5) Raw Landscape

(6) Seascapes

(7) Earth Storm

(8) Still Life Caribbean

(9) Articles - Activist

(10) Planet A2025

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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL 2022 - 2024

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(11) Matriarch

(12) Rococo Punk

(13) Encounters

(14) Greek Gods

(15) Tethys' Oceanids

(16) Power of One

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21st CENTURY ABSTRACT 2025

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(17) Space Time

(18) Elemental Gold

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