Welcome to the gallery. Take your time to browse, or double click a thumbnail to see the slideshow. Slideshow view can be closed by clicking the x in the top left corner. If you find the pop ups hard to read, the descriptions of the work can be read in full on the catalogue
page.
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Oil on linen canvas 53X79 cm AU$650.00
Tabitha had to attend the Austin Hospital for minor surgery on 19 March 2003, had to get there very early in the morning and looking left while crossing the footbridge from the car park noticed the spectacular sky and decided to make a painting of it. Every man or woman of the hospital staff who ministered to her started by saying “did you see the sky this morning?” The date is also significant as the start of the Iraq war.
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Oil on board AU$350.00
The caravan once belonged to Gypsy Lee, who parked it on someone’s land for a small sum and it remained there when Gypsy Lee died. The landowner let art students from Manchester stay there in the holidays, also for a small sum. We didn’t romp naked, in case you’re wondering.
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SOLD Oil on board AU$1000.00
This painting was done from Tabitha’s front room window in Taihape. Her studio was at the back of the house and she ran backwards and forwards between the two until she realised she could actually move the easel to the front. The work was very favourably critiqued when exhibited in Wellington and had its photograph in the catalogue, which prompted write ups and photos in the local paper.
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Oil on Canvas. N.F.S.
While living in Taihape frequent trips were made along the Desert Road, a wonderful source of creativity. Tabitha produced many Desert Road works, since sold.
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Oil on linen canvas, AU$2,000.00
It’s very flat, a challenge to create great distance using only colour.
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Oil on board, AU$300-00
Pylons are part of life now and cannot be ignored.
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Oil on board, AU$300.00
This icon of Fairfield to conform with the Darebin Council’s instructions to produce a work showing something indigenous to Darebin City. There was a prize. Fido didn’t win. He is a wonderful structure outside Fairfield Station. His tail wags, his eyes light up and I think one time he barked.
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Oil on board, AU$300.00
I don’t want to talk about this; it brings back the terrors of my son’s road accident and his five months in hospital and four operations. I made the painting from a pencil drawing I did on the day he’d been told he needed a further operation. He recovered and is a well and happy man.
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Oil on canvas, AU$450.00
Studied for ten minutes when the bus stopped there on the journey from Kilaipeda to Riga. I thought they deserved best quality linen canvas.
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Oil on board, AU$350.00
Another dark mood. Painted from the memory of a pastel I made of the subject years earlier. It was sold, you could say, I never got the money. I think this oil is more sinister than the original.
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Oil on board, AU$400.00
I’ve no idea what these black heaps are, nor the white patch but I know I saw all this while being driven by a friend. I made a thumbnail sketch at the time so I know it’s true. I always mix my own black, a secret recipe I learned at Liverpool Art School. It stands forwards instead of sinking into a hole as would happen if I were to use black from the tube.
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Pastel, AU$150.00
Seen from the window of a café in New Plymouth one beautifully dull morning. Very evocative of that coast.
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Ink process AU$150.00
Backyards are glimpsed from suburban train windows and are a source of delight. The process involves making a pencil drawing then applying white designer’s gouache to all the light parts, thinly where half the tones are needed. Indian ink is painted over the whole. When that’s dry the paper is washed under the cold tap when the white paint lifts off. Good quality paper is essential.
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Oil on board, AU$450.00, 53x43 cm
My most recent work, based on cities I have seen and experienced.
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Pastel, AU$800.00
This portrait was made when William was about 13 years old. He looked like a medieval herald in the hat a friend’s mother had given him. He refused to pose unless he had his dog Bebe on his knee. I kept this picture, not wanting to part with it but recently, deciding it’s such an excellent work it deserves to be out in the world (William is now 49).
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Pastel, AU$380.00, 43x33 cm
This is also a portrait sketch from long ago. It was in my sister’s possession, I claimed it back when she died recently. I’m particularly pleased with it, I marvel that I could draw so accurately and sensitively with great crumbling lumps of soft pastel. I think I can’t do that any more.
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Pastel, N.F.S. , 36 X 54 cm
It’s not for sale because it’s no longer mine, it belongs to my husband. The rocks remind us of a huddle of old men plotting something.
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Pastel, AU$180.00
Same backyard as the ink process.
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Pastel, AU$300.00, 47 x 57 cm
Seen around dusk from the road from Motueka to Nelson.
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Gouache, AU$180.00
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania this is a suburban timber house. Not only did the house intrigue me but it has a cat in the window. Couldn’t resist it.
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Water colour, AU$100.00, 30x35.5 cm
Hamilton Island is a resort off the coast of Queensland. We spent a week there in the middle of winter, which of course was pleasantly warm and conducive to sketching. I’d taken water colours and sketch pads on my first visit to Queensland.
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Water colour, AU$100.00, 30x35.5 cm
Executed at the same time as above, day trip on ferry to the reef.
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Linocut AU$100.00 / 22.5x28 cm
This is one of the last lino cuts I executed, my wrists are too old now to do any more.
