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Ghost Van of Capertee,  31cm  x 41cm, watercolour on paper, 2025

It was the link for so many people, between one stage of their lives,  and the next. It was sometimes a happy occasion,  and sometimes a disappointment.  Many of those people have passed, and some are still living.  The old van won’t be moving people now.  It sits beside a shed and waits for rust, lichen, and the weather to take it back to the earth.

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Ghost Town, 31cm x 41cm, watercolour on pamer, framed, 2025

Ghost Town,  31cm x 41cm, watercolour on paper,  2025

Shale oil was mined in the township of Glen Davis NSW, from the late nineteenth century until the 1950’s when the mine closed. The planned village streets are empty,  as are what remains of this village centre.

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Afternoon at Narrow Neck, 101cm x 132cm,acrylic on canvas, framed in Tasmanian Oak, 2025. This picture is not available , It was commissioned from this website.

I made this work as a result of a query from a couple who view my website and saw my Blue Mountains paintings. They wanted an image of a place special to them. It happened to be a place that I love painting. The work was made from a series of photographs that I took in the last Summer days of 2024 and the mountains turned on a spectacular sunset that evening. This vantage point is about halfway along the dirt road that leads across Narrow Neck, near Katoomba.

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Canola and wind Farm, 61cm x 122cm, acrylic on canvas- framed, 2024 (sold)

This painting had its own ideas about how it should end up. It kept suggesting changes to me and it became an arm wrestle between painter and painting. Artists will understand that what you envision for a work, and what it becomes can sometimes be two very different things. I’m happy that I was able to be persuaded.

It depicts the Canola crops, hills, and a wind farm in central western NSW, as a storm front approaches.