End of the beginning

2023 New Years Eve. As I sit on Bell’s Beach in Australia listening to the waves crash, surfers waiting to catch their next wave and the occasional passing beach wander, I reflect on this year. It was an unexpected destination today. Some of this year was like that too. The deep background roar behind the […]

t e a r s

As a 3ish year old, I was one of ‘those’ wandering children. I had even been picked up by the police once too. As a lost child, not as a delinquent. This drawing depicts the last time I remember wandering off and my first encounter with God. It was also one of last of my […]

5 9

It’s that time of the year again where anniversary days are closer together. Happy 59th Michael. That deserves some cake time for sure! I remember trying to take the goofy photo of you sanding back this window for mum in your mask, and how long it took for me to get one with the mask […]

T h e A c c u s e r

**Edited and reposted When I started painting this work I was exploring composition, layout, colour, facial expression and foreshortening. Generally speaking, I had no idea what this would look like as I begun working on it. It took about 2 years to complete once painting started. I usually have several paintings going at the one […]

A N Z A C

This is a photo of my Grandfather. He was an Anzac. His name is written in one of the Anzac books that line the entire outer inner corridors of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia. You get your name in there as one of the men and women who fought in the First World […]

K I N T S U G I R O S E

“And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him.” 1 John 5:15 Kintsugi Rose continues the concept of Japanese bowl repair. It resonates in some of the artworks that I am developing at the moment that explores God’s repair of the broken. How our bodies […]

b r o k e n

“as I sit in my car after viewing the RONE exhibition at the Geelong Gallery, I find myself literally contemplating my life and the what next. I am returning to work in 3 days and I can’t think of anything worse.” WOAH.. I found this quote sitting alone in this blog post. How so much […]

2 0

This year’s milestone is one that I would never have asked for. Actually each year, month, week, day, hour, minute, breath….you get the idea. As I start to write this in July for later this year I am concious that this has been in the back of my thoughts more than any other year since […]

p r i d e v t r u t h

Studio time today had me completing this work I started yesterday, already having insight into how it could look when finished, but not knowing for sure until it was finished. Each week for me this time in the studio is reflecting on prayer. Church today, through worshipping in song and worshipping through the word feeds […]

m u l t i p l y i n g h o p e

This was started last week in Church as a response to the theme multiplying hope. It is also about getting back on the studio horse in my new studio space after a very disjointed finish to an overly tormultous 2020. This image marries together the eye witness of Jesus life, death and resurrection seen by […]

p a s s o v e r

As the series “get us out of here” comes to an end in iso church, I am reminded of how the narrative of the Israelites leaving Egypt talked about over the last few months, has given me fresh insights into “known” scripture. This artwork has developed over the last couple of weeks. Today I’ve been […]

s t u c k

In iso church studio time today. Lots of meaty stuff in the menu. This one thing stuck. “God isn’t rescuing the Israelites for them.God rescued the Israelites for him.” He’s doing the same in all our situations. If we are honest with ourselves our focus is often, way too often, on what and how we […]

t e a r s 2 . 0 g r a c e

This was my staff devotion for 11th May 2018 In recent times I have found myself challenged to complete old work in order to release the new. Losing someone I used to work with to cancer just before Easter this year heightened this also, and I was and I am confronted more with God’s call […]

j o u r n a l i n g

I have always kept a journal or a visual diary of some kind, well at least since my teenage years. What I wrote in them then was nothing prolific or even prophetic, but was more in line with contacts, birth dates and notes from friends and also including a marriage ceremony message from one of […]

Mother’s day

As an artist my work is often about seeking intimacy with God. To explore what it looks like to seek him and to know him more. To know him more deeply. To be listening to him more intentionally. The more I work on this intimacy with God the more I come to realise it’s more […]