Flower power
![Banksia dusk after fire 70 x 70 W](/assets/artwork/_867x865_crop_center-center_none/Banksia-dusk-after-fire-70-x-70-W.jpg)
Oil on panel, 70cm x 70cm, finalist in The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Prize.
![WA KP walking on springtime W2](/assets/artwork/_1916x277_crop_center-center_none/WA-KP-walking-on-springtime-W2.jpg)
Gouache on 300 gsm Arches paper, 30 x 240 cm. Created en plein air in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia.
![AW Roadside wildflowers W](/assets/artwork/_667x797_crop_center-center_none/AW-Roadside-wildflowers-W.jpg)
![WA detail gum blossums W](/assets/artwork/_1000x1333_crop_center-center_none/WA-detail-gum-blossums-W.jpg)
Silver Princess, Eucalyptus caesia. Watercolour on Arches paper.
![WA macrocarpa WC Web](/assets/artwork/_800x817_crop_center-center_none/WA-macrocarpa-WC-Web.jpg)
Eucalyptus macrocarpa, painted en plein air.
![Pink lake sketching](/assets/artwork/_1000x1000_crop_center-center_none/Pink-lake-sketching_2024-07-02-042301_etho.jpg)
Gouache on Arches paper
![WA Cyanotype 02](/assets/artwork/_643x825_crop_center-center_none/WA-Cyanotype-02.jpg)
![WA Cyanotype 01](/assets/artwork/_667x825_crop_center-center_none/WA-Cyanotype-01.jpg)
![AW2203 Paper daisies and pink sky puddles W](/assets/artwork/_800x801_crop_center-center_none/AW2203_Paper-daisies-and-pink-sky-puddles-W.jpg)
Oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm
![AW2201 Blue spring and paper daisies W](/assets/artwork/_667x667_crop_center-center_none/AW2201_Blue-spring-and-paper-daisies-W.jpg)
Oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm
![AW Deep Blue Study W](/assets/artwork/_1100x1100_crop_center-center_none/AW-Deep-Blue-Study-W.jpg)
Watercolour and gouache on 300gsm Arches paper, 65cm x 65cm.
![Taking sides in moonlight 70 x 70 W](/assets/artwork/_1000x998_crop_center-center_none/Taking-sides-in-moonlight-70-x-70-W.jpg)
Oil on panel, 70cm x 70cm.
Studio works following a residency at Fremantle Arts Centre
The directions of these works came about during and after a 10,000km+ return road trip to the wild, wild, wildflower west. To visit the region across the Spring flowering season was a long held dream and it was a spectacular treat. And an artist residency is a perfect 'time out' to escape your own surrounds, your regular ways of working, and be excited by new ones.
Working from a studio at the Fremantle Arts Centre with two other artists and touring the Fremantle and Perth regions provided new textures, palettes and compositions that I'm still exploring now.