This is Brooks Creek Lane just beyond our place and I really love the play of shadows across it. In this version I have used a loose, expressive, playful approach and think it lends a certain fantastical lord of the rings feeling. I have painted another version of this, not yet on my webpage as…

Returning from a walk along Brooks Creek Lane with dad and the dog, I could see a small flock of sheep gathered on the knoll the other side of the fence from our entrance. Clouds were gathering over the hill behind in an ominous fashion giving a really melodramatic lighting to the scene. In painting…

As I was driving from Sutton to Gundaroo one rainy day, I saw this dead tree near the road with a really cool looking sky behind it and immediately pulled the car over to photograph it. Unfortunately, I had not checked the road shoulder and there was a deep ditch and I nearly toppled the…

This was basically the block out of the view through some gum trees along Brook’s Creek Lane which came out so well that I decided any further work on it would be unlikely to improve it.  I really love the colours and playful blots of light and will endeavour to develop some more paintings along…

This scene shows the paddocks, line of trees, dam, shearing shed, hills and skyline seen from one point along the walk from out place to the Shingle Hill Road end of Brooks Creek Lane. Its actually the same view as in ‘the Shearing Shed’ but with very different atmospherics and a very different approach to…

This is the same shearing shed as is in my earlier landscape “View from the lane”, based on an image I snapped as we were walking back from the letter box at the corner.  I really wanted to try and capture this scene again with a slightly different perspective and see how things might change…

The property opposite ours in called “Rivendell” and, although I’ve painted this view before, I felt the mist transformed it into a mystic scene evocative of Tolkien’s Middle Earth and consequently a goodish fit for the approaches to the Elven settlement of Rivendell (probably nestled in the valley beyond on the bank of Brook’s Creek)….

This is a view of part of the property opposite ours – “Rivendell” which features in many of my paintings. Given the Lord of the Rings connotations of the name “Rivendell” I frequently riff on the middle earth feel of the landscape as I have with this painting. This painting is part of series of…