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Winter Song (River Red Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 120 cm x 180 cm

‘Winter Song’ is a dynamic and flowing interpretation of the bark patterns in the trunk of a large river red gum in Mitcham. Rich pearlescent white cascades like ice flow across seams of dark raw umber, and meets spills of ultramarine blue and turquoise green, with flares in tones of crimson alizarin, hinting at the figures in the trunk’s markings: the warm nude, the cool nude, the monitor lizard, the duck, the platypus, the tadpole, the dingo, the antelope, the buffalo, the humpback whales, the magpie, the coot, the frog, the bumblebee, the turtles, the bowerbird … you’ll think I’m making it up until you see them too.

$4900. Available at Ex Animo Art Gallery, Adelaide

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Spring Song (Sugar Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 120 cm x 180 cm

‘Spring Song’ is a light and bright interpretation of the life marks on a portion of the trunk of magnificent sugar gum in Angas Gardens in North Adelaide. Deep cobalt blues alongside rich burnt sienna shimmers into a pearly almost-white, to reveal human, animal and bird forms delighting in the return of Spring after the depths of Winter. See if you can find the lizards, the elephants, the almost-invisible nudes, the turtles, the kangaroos, the osprey, and the other just-glimpsed, half-imagined shapes that the tree's patterns suggest.

Available to view at Ex Animo Art Gallery, Adelaide.

$4900. Available at Ex Animo Art Gallery, Adelaide

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Dancing in the Moonlight (River Red Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 150 cm x 100 cm

‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ is a delightful exploration of the marks and patterns on a big river red gum tree in Unley Park, using shades of pale Naples yellow, raw sienna, and infusions of burnt sienna and olive green. There is a wonderful energy in the artwork, and a host of forms to discover, though they are hinted at rather than explicitly revealed: curlews, crows, albatrosses, kangaroos, quolls, platypuses, potoroos, storks – ah, and some human forms, dancing while bathed in moonlight.

$3900. Available at Ex Animo Art Gallery, Adelaide

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In the Flow (River Red Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 150 cm x 100 cm

‘In the Flow’ is part of a series of explorations in different colours and at different times of the gorgeous markings on the lower trunk of a huge river red gum tree on the Oval of Scotch College in Torrens Park. Winsor and ultramarine violet patterns on a background of cobalt turquoise tones which are interspersed with flashes of winsor yellow create scenes where creatures and humans make flickering appearances: turtles, koalas, kangaroos, cockatoos, emus, a leafy sea dragon, a dingo, platypuses, and more. As well as the scribbly worm that leaves its mark on the gums.

$3900. Available at Ex Animo Art Gallery, Adelaide

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Elephant and Girafffe (River Red Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 100 cm x 150 cm

‘Elephant and Giraffe’ is an abstract interpretation of the markings on the trunk of a river red gum tree in Millswood near the dog-walking park, and in a calmly sensuous mix of turquoise cool and burnt sienna warm tones it presents a feast for the investigative eye: there are several koalas, ravens, gulls and albatrosses, human nudes, turtles, as well as at least one elephant and giraffe. And if you find the elephant and giraffe, take the challenge one step further and try to find a second giraffe – she is there, if you’ll search.

$3900. Available at Ex Animo Art Gallery, Adelaide

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Australian Sunrise (River Red Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 150 x 100 cm

An abstracted close-up portrait of the bark of a river red gum at Brownhill Creek Trail in Adelaide. Shapes and forms of creatures suggested by the patterns of the bark reveal human female forms, iconic Australian animal species such as Tasmanian tigers, dingoes, platypus, kangaroos and koalas, as well as butterflies and countless birds.

$3,900

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Owl's View of the Wood (London Plane)

Oil on Canvas in Floating Oak Frame, 122 cm x 122 cm canvas size

‘Owl’s View of the Wood’ interprets the colours and markings in the trunk of an old plane tree in London. Owl shouldn’t be too hard to find – he’s just in front of turtle, and turtle is just in front of wombat, though our view of wombat is being crowded by cockerel. Owl’s view is best. He’s watching crake, and the lost labrador who jumped into the lake covered in green algae, the buffalo, the ostrich and the curious emu, the galah looking disinterested, and the confused almost-man wondering if he should escape his box. Owl’s not confused. The colours and markings on the trunks of trees tell us stories – it’s a joy to read them.

$3900

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Taking Flight (Sugar Gum)

Oil on Canvas 135 x 200 cm

This is the second big abstract inspired by the forms and shapes in the patterns on the trunk of a particular old sugar gum tree in Angas Gardens in North Adelaide, South Australia. As Leonardo da Vinci pointed out, the human. brain on spending some time contemplating patterns in clouds or rock faces or treebark automatically begins to make sense of each pattern, sorting them into shapes that relate to the human experience of the natural world. This sugar gum delivers many large or smaller forms that make sense to the sensitive viewer who looks more deeply into the mark-making of the painting.

$6,900

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Travelling Light (Sugar Gum)

135 x 200 cm, Oil on Canvas

This is a big abstract in oils inspired by the number and intensity of the forms and shapes discernible in the patterns on the trunk of an old sugar gum tree in Angas Gardens in North Adelaide, South Australia. As Leonardo da Vinci pointed out, the human. brain on spending some time contemplating patterns in clouds or rock faces or treebark automatically begins to make sense of each pattern, sorting them into shapes that relate to the human experience of the natural world. This sugar gum delivers many large or smaller forms that make sense to the sensitive viewer who looks more deeply into the mark-making of the painting.

$6,900

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Dingo Squiggles (River Red Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 91 x 61 cm

An abstracted close-up portrait of the bark of a river red gum at Currency Creek Waterfall Trail near Middleton in South Australia. Shapes and forms of creatures 'hidden' in the bark patterns – or suggested by the patterns of the bark – are revealed in the painting.

$1810. Available at Ex Animo Art Gallery, Adelaide

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Koala's Meeting Place (Sugar Gum tree)

Oil on Canvas, 183 x 122 cm

In Angas Gardens in Adelaide, where War Memorial Drive meets King William Road, there is a stately old sugar gum, a species that is endemic to the South Australia region. The patterns in the bark are striking and seem to hint at all manner of beautiful and occasionally strange animal, bird, fish and even human forms – some native to Australia, some from far away. At the base of this portrait of the sugar gum, a koala happily acknowledges all the creatures in the bark and welcomes them into his meeting place. Ready to hang.

$4900

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Powerful Owls (Sugar Gum tree)

Oil on Canvas, 152 x 102 cm

Sugar gums, endemic to the south coast of Australia, display the most fascinating patterns in their bark as the trees age. This painting of the trunk of a mature tree in Adelaide in South Australia shows strong contrasts between the patches of creamy-coloured and soft-violet and blue skin versus the dark umber and burnt sienna of its scars and knots. Patterns resembling powerful owls – Australia’s largest owl – gaze directly at the viewer, while others suggest all manner of Australian birds such as kookaburras and the crane-like brolga. At the same time shapes reminiscent of dingoes and even humans slip and slide out of focus. Ready to hang.

$3900

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Contemplative (Plane Tree)

Oil on Stretched Canvas 152 x 101cm

A bold abstracted nude study of a woman facing the viewer, whom she appears to be contemplating and sizing up, rather than the other way round. The background is a riot of colour, with patterns inspired by the bark patterns of a particular plane tree in Adelaide, and the canvas is peopled with numerous creatures, most of which are mere suggestions that the viewer must complete in the studio of their own imaginations.

AU$3910

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Pensive (Pine Tree)

Oil on Stretched Canvas 152 x 101cm

A subtle abstracted nude study with a calming colour palette, overlaid onto a canvas patterned according to the bark patterns of a Scots pine tree.

AU$3910

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Lightness of Being (Blue Gum)

140 x 70 cm, Oil on Canvas

An abstracted portrait of the patterns in the trunk of an old blue gum tree in the Parklands of Adelaide that has aged and died and has begun to lose surface bark in long flakes. Its ancient patterns are glorious and willowy and suggest several creatures and human forms in a celebration of ongoing being – it remains a habitat for life – which the artist has deliberately kept as enigmatic as the striations and whorls in the tree trunk.

AU$2900

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Birth & Rebirth (Paperbark)

70 x 140 cm, Oil on Canvas

A brightly toned and energising abstract inspired by the patterns in paperbark trees – Melaleucas. Paperbark trees have the most astounding swirls and whorls and flowing or swelling lines and marks upon their fascinating trunks and even their branches, and in the tree providing inspiration for the painting there are numerous lines and patterns suggesting human and animal forms, some of which inspired the title – look carefully and allow your imagination free rein to discern them, including the Nativity scene near the top of the painting.

AU$2900

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Emergent Properties (River Red Gum)

Original oil on canvas, 91 x 61 cm

A treebark pattern portrait of a portion of the trunk of a magnificent river red gum in the Mitcham Reserve in Adelaide. It represents only slightly intensified colours of the tree trunk, and the patterns in the bark reveal animals, birds and human forms ... while light and shadow in a small hollow in the trunk seems to show an eye in the tree, watching the viewer.

AUD$1810

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Love and Giraffes (Sugar Gum)

Oil on Canvas, 70 x 50 cm

One of the oldest sugar gum trees – eucalyptus cladocalyx – in urban Adelaide, South Australia is found on the very edge of Palmer Gardens in North Adelaide. Where the trunk has suffered damage sometime in the past two centuries, the protective resinous sap has hardened and darkened into a thick dark crystalline structure which forms the focus of this little portrait. It’s a beautiful tree in its proper and original habitat – and here it’s host to some African animals visiting within its patterned trunk. Ready to hang.

AUD$1450

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Blues Evening (River Red Gum)

Oil on Prepared Hardboard, 98.5 x 79.5 cm Framed

'Blues Evening' is an abstract painting of the bark patterns in a river red gum in Tanunda in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, and if the viewer spends some time looking at the painting, shapes and forms of humans, birds and animals begin to appear. A sinuous, relaxing, beautifully flowing Treebark portrait in a floating oak frame.

AUD$1910

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McLaren Vale Life

Palette-Knife Oil on Canvas, 122 × 122 cm

Framed in Oak – framed dimensions 125.5 × 125.5 × 4 cm

A thickly textured oil painting showing an imagined drone-like view over the vineyards of McLaren Vale, and the foreground trees on closer inspection being birds and creatures that are threatened species in South Australia.

$3900

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Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island

Palette-knife oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm, stretched and ready to hang.

Remarkable Rocks are a landmark on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. This artwork is a bold and textured take in ochre and blue of one of the most significant rocks of the landform, and would be a striking feature on a white wall.

$2400

Available at Artworx, Goolwa

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Barossa Rapture #2 (River Red Gum, Tanunda)

Palette knife oil on canvas, 91.4 x 45.7 cm

A thickly textured palette knife painting of the trunk of an old river red gum in the town of Tanunda in the Barossa Valley of South Australia, with the thick oil paint seeming to show the shapes of creatures in the patterns of the tree. Worked into the thick oils are strands of olive colour, and the sides of the stretched painting are also coloured a lighter shade of olive. The background sky is rendered in brushwork and is Impressionist in style, almost like some of Van Gogh's skies, showing radiating patterns of whorling energy. Calming and uplifting. Ready to hang, framed in floating oak.

$1490

Available at Artworx Gallery, Goolwa, SA

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View to the Obelisk, Robe

Oil on stretched canvas, 50 x 70 W x 50 cm

An impasto painting inspired by the view towards the famous Obelisk in Robe, South Australia, showing the distinctive blues of the sea in the area, as well as the blue-greys of the hardy scrub that grows on the limestone outcrop.

AUD$890 Framed in floating oak

Available at Artworx, Goolwa

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Sellicks Beach, South Australia

Palette knife oil on stretched canvas, 102 x 152 cm

The colourful giant rocks of the long sandy beach of Sellicks Beach in South Australia are well known and frequently photographed by both visitors and locals. Sellicks Beach, known as Witawali by the Kaurna people, is a popular beach in Aldinga Bay, about 50km south of the centre of Adelaide itself. This palette knife painting of the rocks and hills and beach captures the light and shadow created by cloudless summer days of the Fleurieu Peninsula, and invites the viewer onto the shell- and pebble-strewn sands.

$3910

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King's Beach, Encounter Bay

Palette Knife Oil on Canvas, 102 x 152 cm

Close to Victor Harbor in South Australia, Encounter Bay is host to several beautiful beaches, and King's Beach is one of them – sometimes reflecting absolutely smooth blue and turquoise water and sometimes being pounded by wild green waves. This palette-knife painting is of a calm blue day in Encounter Bay, looking east towards the Bluff and clearly showing the little group of rust-red rocks that stand out from the rest at one side of the beach.

AUD$3910

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Redhead (Sugar Gum Barossa)

Impasto Oil on Canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Palette knife impasto painting of a big sugar gum 'guarding' the little bridge at the start of a private road behind the restaurant at Chateau Yaldara in the Barossa Valley. Shapes and figures emerge or are hidden in the patterns within the trunk, including the definite impression of a redheaded female figure.

$3910

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Giant & Jeep (River Red Gum Barossa)

Impasto Oil on Canvas, 122 x 61 cm

A palette-knife painting of the giant river red gum that dominates the parking area of Chateau Yaldara at 1847 Wines in Lyndoch in the Barossa Valley. A tiny Jeep Wrangler parked below the tree lends perspective, and the impasto work reveals figures and shapes in the colours and patterns of the trunk.

$1990

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Sea Cliffs, Scarborough, Cape Town

Palette Knife Oil on Stretched Canvas, 51 x 61 cm

Scarborough in Cape Town is far down the Cape peninsula, farther south than the village-like suburb of Kommetjie as though you’re heading towards Cape Point. As with all gorgeous beachside places, it changes appearance constantly according to the moods of the weather and the sea. Thickly painted sculptural painting that induces a restful mood.

$990

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Winter Song (River Red Gum)
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Spring Song (Sugar Gum)
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Dancing in the Moonlight (River Red Gum)
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In the Flow (River Red Gum)
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Elephant and Girafffe (River Red Gum)
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Australian Sunrise (River Red Gum)
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Owl's View of the Wood (London Plane)
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Taking Flight (Sugar Gum)
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Travelling Light (Sugar Gum)
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Dingo Squiggles (River Red Gum)
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Powerful Owls (Sugar Gum tree)
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Contemplative (Plane Tree)
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Pensive (Pine Tree)
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Lightness of Being (Blue Gum)
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Birth & Rebirth (Paperbark)
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Emergent Properties (River Red Gum)
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Love and Giraffes (Sugar Gum)
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Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island
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Sea Cliffs, Scarborough, Cape Town

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