These are a series that exploit the patterns and decorative things that appear in the watercolours. I am also experimenting with glazes in them too. I want to use some of the symbols and decorative elements in Asia I have seen in them too and I have some beautiful Indian papers I might incorporate into them.

I wanted to create a series of empty landscapes and these are the paintings. The first one is from my time in Tasmania - and it's about the things that resulted in me leaving and not ever wanting to return. I am using glazes in these also.

These paintings are from several I did many years ago in Tasmania that were framed in big wooden frames and sold. I like doing them. Just a bit of fluff really. The borders are full of mad things and lots of different colours.

My art work is done in spurts of frenzy that can have many months between sessions. With working a full-time job, it's hard to find time to just paint. I paint mostly at weekends. I have had long spells from painting over the past few years but am now back into it with zeal and enthusiasm.

I have many oil painting projects going on at the same time.

Most of these paintings are not finished and some have been sitting as drawings on canvas for over a year. The coastline landscapes and Bali shop front were drawn only recently. I am very interested in glazes and am experimenting using them to give my paintings depth and richness.

On this page are the paintings I am currently working on.

These are a series of still life paintings that started with the cumquat things above. I want to do a whole stack with Indonesian flora. The first one will be frangipani. I will do a some mad ones too of all sorts of strange things in vases.

A charcoal drawing on canvas. The coastline where I live is filled with amazing plants and fantastic hills as a back drop. This is a series of small landscapes that come from hundreds of photographs I have taken of the coast.

Another charcoal drawing on canvas. I have a fascination with the shop fronts in Bali and have photographed many of them to use as the basis for paintings. This is the first. I will use a thin raw umber outline in these and in the coastal paintings above. Not sure yet whether I will use realistic colours or mad, bright ones.

A series of Indonsian flora.

A series like the watercolours about being in Indonesia that are painted on a red ground with raw umber lines. I like working on the red ground and the colour shows through, giving colour added life.