Don Giovanni Goes Garfield

Don Giovanni Goes Garfield

Oil on canvas, 16 x 20″
July 2006

I forget the connection with Garfield. Don Giovanni was our cat, passed away November 2017. He never looked anything like the cat in the picture, abstraction or not. Him being a black cat and all that.

Zebra

Zebra

Oil on canvas, 900 x 600 mm
May 2006

Very quick and simple, and a little smudged in the bottom right corner, but still a household favourite.

My Old Man

My Old Man

(He’s a Lot Like Me)

Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 ”
May 2006

After a photo. And after many, many years of not wishing to be anything like him, then gradually realising just how alike we are (and in how many ways we are not), and eventually accepting it all.

It’s my life through a father-and-son relationship. Pretty normal methinks.

Cheetah

Cheetah

Oil on canvas, 200 x 600 mm
October 2005

My daily delight. My Cheetah sits on on the ledge in the stairwell and can’t be missed whenever you go up or down, unless you are distracted by one of the other paintings next to it.

A Bride

Bride

Oil on canvas, 12 x 16″
July 2005

Our good friend Jananne, shown here celebrating her wedding with Simon. The painting doesn’t do her justice, of course not, but it is one of my earlier attempts at portraiture. Still haven’t mastered it, or even apprentice’d it…

Water On Mars

Water On Mars

Oil on canvas board, 12 x 16″
estimated 2005

One of my earliest attempts, still excited by the novelty of discovering modernism and surrealism and painting and…. a whole new world!

The Sky Above Botswana

The Sky Above Botswana

Oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm
approximately 2005

Still a household favourite after all those years. The birds are “Red Bishop” and the super sky is painted with Cobalt Blue, an expensive pigment but a beautiful blue.