Part of my Jan 2026 'Faces' art exhibition. Sold pending in-person viewing.

Part of my Jan 2026 'Faces' art exhibition.

The Waihi Art Club does a 'Challenge' for each Art Exhibition it hosts. The prompt for the Jan 2026 Art Challenge is 'Buildings'

Part of my Jan 2026 'Faces' art exhibition.

(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.

(Each 18x13cm) Sunshine bakes sand. Tiny waves lick the shore. A New Zealand summer at its height. This paired acrylic work on canvas depicts both the inside and outside of the same cockle shell. Outside is armour, weathered by tides; Inside is smooth, evolved to be a sanctuary. No longer anonymous in the countless shells churned by the tides, but an individual.

(18x13cm) Painted in a tent pitched at Mangawhai Heads Holiday Park '24, this drink was an integral part of our NZ summer afternoons. It reminds me of heat, cicadas, white sand beaches and your uncle at the BBq with the tongs.