Art inspired by road trips around Te Waipounamu (South Island, NZ).
(And nowadays the road trips are electric.)
Materials of low environmental cost like 2nd hand picture frames, left over fabric
and small amounts of artists’ quality acrylics added to colour or texture of fabric; ‘accidental’ painting created by painting see-through fabric with thin paper underneath and then being able to reuse that painted paper in other works!
Pencil also in Bush Walks 1 – 4 and Forest Reflections 1 – 3.
I am happy to send you clearer photos of Bush Walks 1 , 2 , 3 and 4, showing the depth created by painted see-through fabric wrapped around front of frame, over space, and painted paper at back of frame.

And also in the interests of low environmental cost, I sometimes cut up and reuse old paintings I don’t want anymore. In these cases, I’m not crazy about the composition I originally chose but I do like some of the colours, shapes and textures. For this work, I cut up a previous oil painting and added driftwood and left over fabric:

These suspended paintings use 2nd hand frames, bound with satin selvedge from Creative Junk, with cut up old oil paintings or leftover fabric painted with thinned acrylics.