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Grindell’s Dream, 91cm x 152cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026

John Grindell was an early white settler in the Flinders and Gammon Ranges district of South Australia. He ran cattle and built a hut that still stands today. In 1918 he was arrested by an Adelaide detective on suspicion that he had murdered and hid the body of George Snell, his son in law. He was later convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His sentence was later commuted and he spent the rest of his life in prison. This was the view from Grindell’s Hut which I stayed in in 2012.

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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.