New in the Gallery

Tania at the Big Cactus Art Gallery has been asking me for some large paintings so here are two I've done for her! See them from Thursday at:
The Big Cactus, 64 Darley Street, Mona Vale, Sydney Tel: Tania 0414 804 655

Barrenjoey Lighthouse

Late last year I went for a drive to West Head and took heaps of photos looking across to Barrenjoey Lighthouse. I finally turned this photo into a beautiful big painting.

Commission: Mona Vale Beach

Commissions usually don't make it onto my web site, which seems a shame as they are often some of my best work.  Amy took a liking to my work about 6 years ago, and was now ready to order painting of Mona Vale beach. I worried that my style had changed quite a lot over the years, getting a lot more detailed and I wasn't sure she'd still like my work!  I showed her another commission I had done in January this year of Whale Beach (on a surfboard) and fortunately she liked it, so we were good to go! This is the result:

Below is the Whale Beach Commission, completed earlier this year on a 7'4 mini-mal

And this was the style I was doing when Amy first liked my work: