“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the weeds, too. Weeds grow wild, and they grow strong.”
Quote from Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (1992).

Painting “Where ideas come from” (2023, held in private a collection)

Painting in the shade near Matakana, Aotearoa New Zealand

"Social media is a cruel, shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and charlatans run free, and good men and women die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

‘24 so far. After an intense year of creativity, experimentation and expansion I have been in a bit of a go-slow. Or at least that’s how it sometimes feels; that being said I have made some art I’m happy with. These three images are work from 2024.

After eating the second round of apple crumble that my daughter made I remembered that jokes about icing sugar are quite rare but jokes about brown sugar… demerara

Sometimes I paint people. Is that weird? People are weird. Is it weird to paint weird people? Tune in for more thought provoking nonsense

I art with birds from Aotearoa New Zealand

I art… because I do…

I art… because?