(40.5x30.5cm) A hillside house built from childhood materials sits on a steep Wellington street. Bright, modular blocks suggest play and imagination, while the powerlines, road markings and heavy night sky anchor the scene in adult reality. The work reflects on how homes are not ideal constructions, but accumulations - built from what is available, held together by context, compromise, and persistence.

(18x13cm) Painted in restrained blues, a resting child sleeps. The child is set against a softened landscape - a forest. A single butterfly hovers above. Memory endures, even as specific details fade. Some lives are carried forward through lasting emotional presence rather than pristine recollection.

(20x30cm) Mona, but she knows what she did reimagines the worlds calmest portrait mid-rebellion. The quiet smile meets neon light, where realism clashes with the unreal. Bright colours and modern details expose the tension I love - between history and humour. She's timeless, eclectics and just a little bit guilty.

(18x13cm) Beauty and unease. A white-washed, then gold leafed surface suggest purity and worth, yet within it emerges an androgynous face - imperfect, unblinking, and stripped of expression. The work reflects how we conceal fragility beneath glamour, and how even gilded surfaces have cracks.

(Each 20x30cm) This 2 canvas acrylic series explores how perception changes across a lifetime. Rather than suggesting increased clarity, the sequence reflects shifting ways of seeing - through curiosity, confrontation, and finally, inward reflection.

(40.5x30cm) A Victorian-style man drawn in a formal, traditional way. A square of bold colour cuts across his face, placing him in drag makeup and breaking the sense of authority and control usually associated with this type of portrait. The surface is built up with acrylic paint, gold leaf, dried flowers, and collage. A message is hidden in amongst the horizontal lines of this work, barely visible at first glance. This painting looks at the way being quiet or respectable is praised and enforced

(18x13cm) This piece reimagines Waihi's Rocket Park beneath a gilded gold sky and a watchful red moon. The familiar playground structures are reduced to bold, stylised lines, standing stark against the muted grey. The golden atmosphere transforms a local landmark into something almost celestial. A balance of nostalgia and otherworldliness.

(18x13cm) Set against a luminous gold foil sky, this reimagines Waihi's historic mining structures through a surreal lens. The bold yellow forms and vivid red aura radiate heat and memory, vitality and decay. The silos stand as symbols of endurance within a landscape shaped by industry.

(10x10, 15.5x15.5, and (20x20cm) Explore the unseen beauty within the Earth's smallest details. Each of these three square canvases-depicting gold (gold leaf), granite (mica powder mixed into paint), and an augite crystal (high bi-refringence under XPL light)-translates microscopic views into vivid abstraction.