Cottage Painting on dome

I love the dome shaped casting. I cast this one in a plastic tea tray from the $2.00 shop. It has hooks at the back for hanging. Hand painted with acrylics and coated with Royal Coat by Plaid.

Oval Plaque - Plaster Casting

This is another plaster cast plaque. Cast in a plastic picnic plate or dish. The picture is from a hand painted design but it is decoupaged on. The subject is gum tree branch

Oval Frangipani plaque

This plaque was cast in a throw-away plastic picnic plate or dish. Hand painted frangipani in a brass pot. The plaque is sitting on a plate stand, but it has hooks at the back for hanging..

Loquats timber box with rope handles

This is the other side of the "Loquats" box. Hand painted, hand made pine wood box with rope handles.

Loquats timber box with rope handles

Handpainted box made with scrap pine timber pieces. Rope handles. This box is approximately 14 inches square and 8 inches high. Holds lots of "STUFF" ... hand painted folk art style!

Plaster cast wall plaque

A bit of plaster casting. Hand cast and hand painted. Lots of chunky fruit of strange kinds.

Imaginary creature hatching from an egg

This sketch was part of one of my drawing classes. "An imaginary creature hatching from an egg"

I love you

The inspiration for this painting came from a book on the West Indies. Only the message in the sand is different.

My imagination

This painting is "nowhere" The scene is entirely from my imagination. I did this painting while living in Trinidad, before migrating to Florida.

The Florida Lighthouse

This lighthouse is somewhere in southern Florida. The painting was done from a photograph. If you recognize it, please post a comment and let me know exactly where it is so I can look up the history.

Christmas Island

Christmas Island ... Indian Ocean.

Christmas Island Crab

This is another type of crab found on Christmas Island. This was done from a photo. He is so cute with the big beady eyes.

Christmas Island Red Crabs

This is obviously not a painting, but I thought you might be interested in seeing what the roads look like during the annual migration of the Christmas Island Red Crabs on their way to the ocean to lay their eggs. It's a pitty you can't eat them. Apparently there are over 100,000,000 red crabs on the island. I never found out who counted them but ...

Christmas Island Red Crab

My first drawing of a Christmas Island Red Crab.

Christmas Island Red Crab

The red crabs on Christmas Island are quite amazine. You can look them up on the internet. There were a couple of them living in my garden, and one seemed to like it behind the washing machine which was situated in an outside open room. Sort of like a room without a door.

Christmas Island Golf Course

This painting was done for a very special lady who landscaped the Christmas Island Golf course. She was originall from somewhere in England so I guess the painting is there now. I removed lots of the trees to improve the look of the painting. Christmas Island was much too small for me. Although it is quite beautiful and has lots of interesting wild life and caves I soon felt clostrophobic living on such a small Island. I guess I missed being able to just go shopping for art supplies and tool and stuff like that. On Christmas Island you need to order special things through the local shops then wait for the next ship to come in to get you stuff! I spent most of my time there painting.

Caladiums

This is one of the oldest paintings of all I have done. The caladium leaves were from my garden in Trinidad. The buds were frm another tropical plant but I can't remember what they are called.

Ball

An excersize from one of my drawing classes. I quite like this sketch. I think I will get it framed one day.

Apple Cider

I started doing this painting while living in Florida back in the late 70's. My room mate liked the wine that came in that bottle. The original painting had a brick red background but I never liked it. Finally in 2005 and now living in Perth Australia, I got inspired to re-do the background and added the fringe on the cloth and finally signed the painting. It won second prize in it's catagory at the local Liddelow Homestead Arts & Craft Club annual art exhibition.

The Number Two!

This abstract drawing was inspired by the number "2" Look carefully and you can see all the two's. They are connected to each other, some overlap each other and some are somewhat distorted and stretched. Then of course the whole thing is mirrored to for this design.