New Exhibition "Coastal Lines"

'Coastal Lines' is the first collaborative exhibition I have done, with my wife Anne. It is representative of our love of the ocean & the beach, which has been a great source of inspiration over the years.
As we built up this new body of work, we realised our friend Barbara was working with similar subject matter & we invited her to join us in this show. Her ceramic crustaceans are a perfect complement to our work.
Through this exhibition we hope to raise the awareness of the delicate and fragile beauty of our over-loved & exploited coastline.

                           Here is a little preview...

 

Surfs Up X 9. New work

This is a new work I have just finished for a show at the Retrospect Gallery Byron Bay, called 'Petits Travaux'. Each artist was invited to do 9 works, each work being 25 x 25cm.

Acrylic Transfer Release

Over the last few months I have been experimenting with a technique called 'Image transfer release'. It is a medium used for transfering printed images generated from diverse sources such as magazines, inkjet prints and photocopies onto nearly any surface, e.g. paper canvas, fabric etc.

The transfer process requires an application of a thin layer of acrylic gel medium over the the image to be transferred. Then place onto the surface you wish to have the image on, rolled flat with a roller for good contact and left to dry. The backing paper of the image needs to be dampened with water and then removed by lightly rubbering with a cloth or fingers. This leaves a transparent image imbedded within the acrylic medium.