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I have made several wands which I plan to exhibit in cabinet type box art forms. Here are my wands and some ideas of presenting some of them. The Psyche surgery wand comes with electronic instrumentation. Some of my ideas in presenting these wands in art form. This one is for the Tincture...

This is made from a strangled Camphaloral tree branch, copper tubing and wire, leather, Flourite crystal, and a window Quartz crystal. I only used it once, and once was enough! It is too dangerous in the wrong hands for me to sell it. I have plans to put it in a glass lid cabinet with the a...

Many artists throughout history have painted the crucifixion scene. I never thought I would give it a go too. The idea came to me while studying photos of a human skull. The idea was of looking out through the eye sockets, from within the skull. To get a picture of the crucifixion from Christ's...

Mainly Manly (1992) is a painting based on Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia. Oil paint on plywood. 1220 x750mm.

Targuin's Garden refers to the cutting of tall poppies allergy, though I used my own imagined flowers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus Oil Paint on plywood (1992). 330 x 660 mm.

One of my first paintings in 1992 was an imagined landscape. The problem I had was that I was too poor to own a car to escape from the city of Sydney to paint a bush scene. I lived in a very small flatette, on the ground floor, and the windows had steel bars. I felt imprisonned there. So I...

Serenity (1992). Oil paint on plywood sheet. 890 x 910 mm.

Oil paint on thin plywwod (1992). 1170 x 940mm. An experiment in rich colours. Some liked it, but I eventually did not. It got too rich as I got older. So I cut it up into small rectangular pieces for paint test srtips.

Way back in 1981 I was diagnosed as an alcoholic. After detox and rehab I stopped drinking for two years. But that does not mean I had any resemblance of sobriety. I was a dry drunk. As the say, 'If you take the alcohol out of a fruitcake you still have a fruitcake'. Then I relapsed for several...

Having a large easel really made me want a movable paint trolley. A trolley to hold and store all my paint tubes, pallet, brushes, solvents and mediums. This may sound a lot, but later on I added even more bits and pieces to the trolley. First of all I went to a secondhand shop and bought a...

Found old sketches of a cat I did a few decades ago. While looking at it I realized how much I am out of drawing practice. I hope to get back to some resemblance of confidence and fluidity one day.

Over a decade ago I travelled to Austria for the World Masters Cycling Championships - Road. On race day I hit the deck head first and got knocked out for 40 minutes before paramedics awoke me. For me the race to the end was replaced for a race to the hospital. I broke two teeth and got eleven...

I like to paint large and so I often use wahl sticks. I have several sizes with the usual soft fabric ball on one end. However, I saw many years ago a design that uses a hook instead of a ball. I copied the idea using a sheet of aluminium and it works very well. In fact, it has become my...

In 2004 I searched the Internet for plans, but was not too happy with any of them. So I picked what I liked from them and came up with my own. It is mainly made from cheap building frame timber. Has ajustable height and lean. Moves around on wheels and they can be locked into place.

It is a different point of view to see things with colour inversion. It's like a negative viewpoint, but the elements of composition, colour temperature, weight and balance, etc., also becomes inverse. Some beautiful photos, inversed, look awful. And some awful shots can look beautiful in...

Back in 1992 I wanted to enter this painting into the James Hardie Wildlife Art Exhibition. But before I could do so a person, who claims to have seen a Yowie in the Blue Mountains, bought the painting. Oil paint on plywood. 1220 x 750 mm. It has an eerie way of pointing at you no matter...

I did this painting a long time ago (1992). It was my first 'let myself loose' painting. It was completely experimental. Doing things I never done before. The background was all done in oil paint, followed by a turpintine wash. Then I painted the dead ghost gum trees, but the shading was all...