A blast from the past: 1974 - my studio in Burleigh Heads on Queensland’s Gold Coast. I lived upstairs with my daughter Lisa and Jackie Boyd and Jo Chorney lived downstairs (Jo owned the house). Sadly, both no longer with us. Thankfully it might be said, I abandoned this self-portrait on marine ply. In the left foreground is the air bottle with regulator that I used for airbrushing (silent for working at night) and the enamel paint is top right. Good to see my filing of important docs always took centre stage. Fifty-two years later, I still have the easel on the right, it was a Queensland Gov. school issue. It has had a few coats of paint.

Recently shown in Deep Marks exhibition at Woolloongabba Art Gallery Brisbane. ( 7 - 28 Feb)

Title: Another Subway 2026, etching on Dutch etching paper, plate 16 x 19 cm. Box construction c 40 x 40 cm contains mirrors, acrylic painted figures, LED light.

Another Subway etching 2026

partial view through peephole

Still working on the classical themed works featured in my Parker Contemporary solo show last year. Examples were also included in the Gallery’s very successful showing at the Sydney Contemporary 11 – 14 September 2025 at Carriageworks in Sydney. Also shown by PARKER Contemporary in Sydney and at a recent PopUP gallery at Queens Wharf in Brisbane were examples of the recent Simian Empire series.

Shaped copper plates on the work bench at QCAD print studio at South Bank in Brisbane, Australia. The solvent bottle top centre gives an indication of the scale of each which is around 85 x 90 cm.

The Orders (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) - triptych, shaped copper plates, etching on Hahnemühle 300gsm sheets c. 80 cm x 100 cm. Also printed as individual plates in different colour combinations on Hahnemühle and 300gsm Dutch Aquatint paper.

All etching and aquatint from shaped plates printed on Hahnemühle 300gsm sheets (dimensions variable c. 108 cm x 58 cm)