Silence at Sundown, Hawkdun Range at Fall's Dam, Central Otago, New Zealand. This painting captures the last touch of Autumn sunlight highlighting the grass with the expansive Hawkdun Range basking in the background. These little buildings are scattered around the edge of Fall's Dam, some still being used as fisherman huts while others fade slowly into the past. Fall's Dam is a breathtakingly quiet and peaceful escape. On this still evening only the sound of a few distant sheep intermittently broke the silence. The painting is 2 meters by 1 meter and painted with acrylic on cedar framed board. View the painting in detail here.
Camp Stream Hut, a historic musterers hut on the Te Araroa trail near Tekapo with Roundhill in the background. A magical place to visit, especially in the late afternoon although once the sun falls it becomes bitterly cold. On this particular trip the walk out was sodden with snow melt and my feet lost feeling in the last main river. Brr…
Inspired by an almost dreamlike trip along ridge lines, past Lake Morgan and to the top of Mt O’Shanessy the painting is slowly taking shape. I really wanted to capture those warm, golden, summer West Coast rays that you...
While the mountains are freezing and the nights are long it's one of the best times of the year to settle in and put some quality time into painting… I have been making excellent progress on the artworks behind me in the above photo, already adding in lots of detail layers and rich washes of colour. Yet there's...
