95cm x 95cm
Acrylic Ink on Wood.
2019

$2,600

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Amaltheia was the foster mother of Zeus, who was charged with raising him in a cave in Crete to protect him from his father.

She is sometimes represented as a goat, and sometimes as a goatherder. In one stream of legend, when Zeus was an infant he broke off one of his mother’s horns and played with it. It became known as Cornucopia and Amalthea became the first unicorn.

In this work you can see the Cretan hillsides, a tree divided into two strong branches, with one broken off which represents Amaltheia. There is a shield (Aegis), an evil eye (representing protection) and a myriad of pebbles, which are a running theme through many of my works.

Stars feature as an eternal link from the past to eternity, and also as a symbol of those lost and yet to come. Every human, no matter the age, sex, culture, or experience has looked at a night sky - it’s our one universal experience.

90cm x 60cm
Acrylic Ink on Wood
2017

SOLD

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Ataegina, is known in legends as the goddess who is reborn each spring, lives through summer and symbolically dies each Autumn in an infinite cycle. 

Goddesses of rebirth hold a special interest for me, and trees are a recurring theme, personally representing strength in the face of impermanence.

This work is acrylic ink on wood and shadow framed in black oak.

95cm x 95cm
Acrylic Ink on wood, Framed in Black Oak.

$2,600

This work was a finalist in the 2019 Mission to Seafarers Art Prize

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Namazu is the legendary Catfish that in Japanese culture is believed responsible for earthquakes.

Offerings to Namazu explores our superstitions about warding off disaster.

It can be hard at times to feel like we can do anything to ward off disaster - particularly climate change, and that doing small things to ward off the impending doom of climate change may be futile. We seek to wrap the earth with small gestures, which makes us feel like we have some control. Perhaps, as individual humans that's all we can do to get by and any small measure, if comforting is meaningful.

The rocks here are offerings, carefully wrapped in crochet and tenderly offered to Namazu via the sea.

95cm x 95cm
Acrylic ink on wood - framed in black oak
$2,600

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Persephone was abducted by Hades, the God of the Underworld in Greek mythology and became her queen. She represents the personification of Spring, vegetation, and rebirth.

This work features abstracted vegetation, seeds and mew life, and at the top - Persephone’s view of the sky from the earth below.

Acrylic ink on wood. Framed in Black Oak and metre square.

30cm x 30cm
Acrylic Ink on wood, Framed.
SOLD

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In Fijian mythology, Daucina is the God of the sea, and the story goes that when he was a toddler he was only quiet when looking at a lamp, so his mother tied ‘fiery reeds’ to his head to keep him calm.

I love that image, and the story that he is roaming about the coral reefs with a hood on, causing mischief wherever he goes. The sea is a trickster.

(sold)

50cm x 50cm
Acrylic ink on ply

$750
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I have a love of echidnas, having first met one, presented in a bucket in when I was in prep. Watching it being tenderly removed and shown to the class was a profound experience for me and it was magical to understand that its source of protection was actually a sign that it was incredibly vulnerable.

In aboriginal legend the echidna was an old man, who was unable to hunt and so took to luring young men to his cave to kill and consume. When the men discovered what he was up to, they threw spears at his back and he has had to survive on ants ever since.

For me, this little rock-like creature represents strength, resilience and industriousness and is a great reminder that people we meet who comes across as spiky, are usually people hiding pain and doing the best they can.

95cm x 95cm
Acrylic ink on wood
Framed in black oak

SOLD

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Those lost at sea, according to Nordic legends, visit loved ones left behind in the form of cormorants.

I have a fascination with the sea, and enormous admiration for the people who sailed it in past years to travel, to trade and to explore. I do feel though, when gazing out to a rough sea on a grey day, that it must have been a source of great worry for those left behind with months or years in between contacts. To see a cormorant visiting, wondering if it was your loved one, or a relative, must have been at once comforting and troubling.