Wood: Australian red cedar
Dimensions: 64x 30x45cm
Artist Statement: The majesty of the horse, its power and intelligence are all reflected in its simple action of quenching his thirst.
Wood: Jacaranda
Dimensions: 60x34x34cm
Artist Statement: The rituals of courtship are explored in this contemporary piece; the 2 birds, one flying up and chasing the other flying down are connected in the form of the ovoid egg, symbolic of their eventual mating.
Awards: Concept Stainless Design Award and People's Choice Award at 2016 Brisbane Sculpture Festival; Second prize, 2016 Royal National Show, Brisbane.
Wood: Jacaranda from New Farm Park
Dimensions: 110x 38x30cm
Artist Statement:
When seeing the twisted form of this jacaranda branch I saw the shape of a ‘woman’ dancing, waiting to be released from the branch.
Awards: Honourable Mention; 2016 Brisbane Sculpture Festival
First Prize, 2016 Royal National Show, Brisbane
Wood: Australian Red Cedar and Stainless Steel
Dimensions: 53x40x12cm
Artist Statement:
The idea of this sculpture came from looking at a clam shell with its curved radial lines, which when you study the clam has lines on the outside in the shape of a wave.
Materials: Stainless Steel, marine ply, styrofoam, epoxy fibre glass and solar cells and pumps
Dimensions: 150x120x120cm
Artist Statement:
Powered solely by solar power ‘Sunbird in Paradise’ depicts how all life on earth is totally dependent on our sun and water.
Awards: Honourable Mention 2016 Brisbane Sculpture Festival
Materials: Stainless Steel, marine ply, styrofoam, epoxy fibre glass and solar cells and pumps
Dimensions: 150x120x120cm
Artist Statement:
Powered solely by solar power ‘Sunbird in Paradise’ depicts how all life on earth is totally dependent on our sun and water.
Awards: Honourable Mention 2016 Brisbane Sculpture Festival
Wood: Stained Moreton Bay Fig
Dimensions: 58 x 23 x 22cm
Artist Statement: We all know that everything living dies. However I like to extend the life of trees and our memories by using the timber from trees to make sculptures that will extend the life of our trees, and rekindle those memories of by gone days when we strolled along a beach.
Wood: Jacaranda
Dimensions: 43 x 35 x 15cm
Artist Statement: The look of love depicts that wonderful aura of two people totally captivated in each others spell, in love, oblivious to all around.
Wood: Jacaranda
Dimensions: 34 x 85 x 46cm
Artist Statement: It always gives me pleasure watching seabirds effortlessly fly, soaring the thermals. This sculpture also was inspired by the music ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ by Neil Diamond.
Wood: Jacaranda
Dimensions: 78 x 34 x 34cm
Artist Statement: Blending the wave into the boat is my interpretation of the exhilaration felt when the boat is lifted onto a wave and becomes one with the wave. It is a 'bucket list' joy to experience.
Wood: Jacaranda
Dimensions: 70 x 22 x 20cm
Artist Statement: The fascination of birds in flight is mesmerizing how they defy gravity which such ease and grace.
Awards: 2012 RNA 2nd Prize; 2015 RQAS 1st Prize
Wood: Australian Red Cedar
Dimensions: 36 x 35 x 23cm
Artist Statement: The ocean is a huge source of inspiration for me and I’m always fascinated when watching waves roll in and become ripples which then expose the shells.
Wood: Mango
Dimensions: 15 x 30 x 30 (approx.)
Artist Statement: This sculpture depicts 2 birds flying in circles. We will be like the birds flying in circles, getting nowhere when trying to save our environment unless we start now with some definitive action, instead of passing the problems onto someone else.
Awards: 2010 RNA 1st prize; 2010 RNA Champion Sculpture
Wood: Australian Red Cedar
Dimension: 60 x 40 x 30cm
Artist Statement: The sea inspires many of my sculptures. This is reflected here with the movement of the waves , the diving of seabirds and the leaping of whales out of the ocean. By fusing these elements in the one sculpture I endeavour to show how the two environments, the air and the sea, and all that lives in and on them are closely inter-connected.
Wood: Huon Pine
Dimensions: 82 x 30 x 30cm
Artist Statement: I have used the unblemished pale honey coloured grain of the huon pine to reflect the beauty of the Egret that always looks so clean and elegant as it feeds.
Wood: Jacaranda
Dimensions: 75 x 35 x 35cm
Artist Statement: This sculpture reflects the joys I experienced when sailing; watching the bow slice through the waves and the exhilaration I felt as the boat ‘lifted her skirts’ and surged down the face of the wave.
Wood: Poinciana and black stain
Dimensions: 70 x 35 x 30cm
Artist Statement: The bond of a mother and child transcends all boundaries. The sculpture focuses on the bond, of a mother and the child that was inside her; the child she held close to her heart; it will always be part of her. This deep primal maternal love that she feels inside her is always with her…like a shadow in her heart.
Wood: Australian White Cedar
Dimensions: 80 x 30 x 30cm
Artist Statement: I am always enchanted by the freedom of birds as they gracefully glide, twist and turn in the air.
Limited Edition Bronze 1/15
Artist Statement: This was inspired by the treble clef symbol, my love of sailing and the shape of sails. However as the sculpture progressed I saw it also evolving as a flower, opening, releasing an evocative fragrance drifting on a gentle breeze.
Limited Edition Bronze 1/15
Dimensions: 92 x 50 x 40cm
Artist Statement: This sculpture was inspired after seeing the performance of Flamenco Fire at QPAC Theatre where I was enthralled by the colour, movement and passion displayed by the dancers.
Awards: Original was Champion Sculpture 2014 Royal National Show Brisbane; 2014 Sculptors Queensland People's Choice Award
Bronze Limited Edition 3/25
Dimensions: 70 x 30 x 22cm
Artist Statement: Graceful, unconventional lines are used in this sculpture to form volume and expression. Marrying the lines of the wing and the head of the Albatross to form a wave, defines the Albatross in harmony with its’ environment. The simplistic clean lines of the wing in flight, epitomizes the significance of an environmental plan to abandon pollution. Man’s unrelenting desire for economic growth unfortunately results in our oceans and atmosphere becoming the refuse tip of the world. The decline of Albatross numbers is now a ‘canary’ of our environment’s health: warning us that we need to take control of our environment.
This limited edition bronze was cast from an original created from Jacaranda wood which has won numerous prizes.
So often we admire the plumage of birds but don’t appreciate the skills and the beauty of their choreographed acrobatic dance like movements in the sky. The graceful twisting, turning, diving and soaring movements are the inspiration for this sculpture.
Dimensions: 67x23x20cm