Father and his Daughter

This impressionist, painterly photograph captures a father and his daughter walking on the beach on a sunny afternoon. The two figures are walking blissfully on the sand. They appear as shadowy smears at close proximity, chatting along the beach. Their voices muffled by the soft winds. The lovely relationship is captured in a very isolated area of the beach. The evocative image plays on memory and relationship in a vast landscape. Here the photographer becomes the voyeur.

The Streaked Ocean

This expansive oceanic view is dark and mysterious with a few strong vertical streaks punctuating horizontally through the composition. It’s both simultaneously abstract and painterly at the same time.

Divergent Paths

This photograph captures the woods in Wollongong. This abstract image captures the woodiness and the highly textured surface qualities seen on bark, dry leaves and the overall environment. The textured, scratchy quality with white swirling marks leads the eye into potential bush tracks. Each path takes you to another part of the woods. The easiest path is the path of no resistance but in this case, it may be confusing to know which path can lead you out without any complications. In effect, the map is a graphic abstraction with no pre-defined path, better to enjoy rather than to depend on.

Impressions:

This visceral work captures the imagination and invites you to explore the beauty of abstraction. The colour palette consists of earthy browns , creams and white and takes you on an abstract journey into the woods. This abstract work is embued with softness yet energised. The linear quality of the work draws the viewer. This work is open to interpretation, but it always alludes to nature and its organic quality.

Me Myself and I

These blurry and painterly, Gerhard Richter inspired photographs capture the essence of the sitter. This photograph is about capturing movement. This portrait is a subversion of a traditional portrait in that the sitter is required to move and not to sit still. A slow shutter speed was utilised to create painterly smears, lines and smudges. More is left to the effect of aesthetics, that is, light and colour and texture. The sitter is a mystery figure, expressive and one with his environment.

The Nocturnal Ocean Series

This series of photographs of the ocean captures the powerful force and magic of the waves as they are building up and swooping before they descend into a crashing wave. The wave is imbued with the magic light just before sunset. The wave’s ethereal beauty is captured in the curves of the waves, the deep blues, oranges and purples and the infinite quality of the depth of the ocean. The wave itself represents two places - that of the surreal and otherworldly and that of the beauty of the ocean itself and our relationship to it.

The Nocturnal Ocean Series

This series of photographs of the ocean captures the powerful force and magic of the waves as they are building up and swooping before they descend into a crashing wave. The wave is imbued with the magic light just before sunset. The wave’s ethereal beauty is captured in the curves of the waves, the deep blues, oranges and purples and the infinite quality of the depth of the ocean. The wave itself represents two places - that of the surreal and otherworldly and that of the beauty of the ocean itself and our relationship to it.

The Nocturnal Ocean Series

This series of photographs of the ocean captures the powerful force and magic of the waves as they are building up and swooping before they descend into a crashing wave. The wave is imbued with the magic light just before sunset. The wave’s ethereal beauty is captured in the curves of the waves, the deep blues, oranges and purples and the infinite quality of the depth of the ocean. The wave itself represents two places - that of the surreal and otherworldly and that of the beauty of the ocean itself and our relationship to it.

Pariya Pashmak Persian fairy floss

This black and white abstract photograph consists of a series of fine white lines that curl and swirl and interlace in the same way threads do. The image has an analogue quality to it emulating the velvety scratchy quality seen in etching plates. These furious yet delicate lines hover above glimpses of a choppy ocean. Pariya Pashmak clouds, alien and magnetic.

Autumnal 1 and 4 Series

The blurry photograph of Parsley Bay is the opposite image of the tranquillity of the bay. Here the bay is alight. The series has both an impressionistic and abstract quality and has the colourisation at times of an Arthur Streeton. The colours and tones are typically Australian, where one can feel the dry winds blasting through and the possibility of a bushfire seems imminent and ever present.

Autumnal 1 and 4 Series

The blurry photograph of Parsley Bay is the opposite image of the tranquillity of the bay. Here the bay is alight. The series has both an impressionistic and abstract quality and has the colourisation at times of an Arthur Streeton. The colours and tones are typically Australian, where one can feel the dry winds blasting through and the possibility of a bushfire seems imminent and ever present.

Atumnual 1 and 4 Series

The blurry photograph of Parsley Bay is the opposite image of the tranquillity of the bay. Here the bay is alight. The series has both an impressionistic and abstract quality and has the colourisation at times of an Arthur Streeton. The colours and tones are typically Australian, where one can feel the dry winds blasting through and the possibility of a bushfire seems imminent and ever present.

Pyramids of Sydney

These photographs of the Opera House in Sydney are reduced to their geometric essence. They are blurry and mysterious and are contextually related to a desert rather than in situ- on the harbour. This surreal representation places the Opera House in a dry, arid destination. The sails become pyramids to be viewed through a mirage. The elegant , repeated shapes of the iconic Opera House structure seem light and ethereal and otherworldly.

Sketch of the Bridge

The x-ray, pencil -like quality of the photograph of the Sydney harbour Bridge subverts the idea of heavy steel and structure to ethereal lightness and poetic beauty. The fine delicate lines are a result of slow shutter speeds. The camera is used as a paint brush or an etching tool. Here we see traditional modes of expression juxtaposed with digital technologies. The harbour bridge looks more like an etching than a photograph and documents the structure in a poetic manner. The aesthetic assists the viewer to view the bridge with sentimentality in mind.