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  • A self-portrait with another self-portrait and my last painting as a background. Foreground: Nude, pastel drawing on watercolor paper, private collection Europe / Background: YouMe, oil on canvas, private collection Australia I reluctantly did this self-portrait, it was one of the compulsory themes for my final exam in Portraiture Photography. My teacher told us to come with something creative and interesting, and gave us some amazing examples from previous years. I left this till the last moment because nothing interesting crossed my mind. In the end I took my last drawing for Chris Orchard’s class and my last painting and did this. I used the natural light which was coming from the balcony from my right side. The image wasn’t “photoshoped”. / Finally when I got up there in front to talk about my work, I was surprised to see that this work was everyone’s favorite. It was the least prepared of all my works. The commission selected it to put it on the school website, and not long after, The Advertiser news paper, called me to publish it. My agent printed it on a large canvas which was sold during South Australian Living Artists Festival.

  • lino print on brown paper This is my largest print, measuring about 50cm by 35cm. It was made by chiselling out a piece of Linoleum. / Unlike with the collograph, a lino print works backwards, removing all the areas I wished to remain white. In sucha large piece, this took quite a long time to achieve, adn there were several slips and injuries to fingers along the way! / the plate took me about 2 weeks to complete, and I still had no idea whether it would work until that first test run through the press! Working in reverse (as the image will be printed back to front) is quite triccky and confusing, and the first few runs through the press were disastrous!! Lots of fiddling about and adjusting pressures, trying different paper, colours, ... until finally i settled on the brown, rather textured surface. I dont’ knwo what else to say, but am happy to answer any questions you might have (o:

  • Another blue composition, ink and acrylic on paper…

  • Oil on Linen 150cm X 55cm. Portrait of Karen, my own little patch of sun, for her birthday card this year. Last years was Blue Velvet. / / First painting based on a reference taken on the island, so it has a different light and feel to some of the others I think anyhoot. / Enjoy

  • Hecate is the Greek goddess of witchcraft, childbirth and the crossroads. She has power over skies, earth and sea, which I wanted to show through each one of the three figures. The central one carries several symbols attributed to the goddess: the pomegranates in her hair remind us of the legend of Persephone, in which she plays an important role; while she hides her right eye behind her hand, the eye still shows through the fingers, meaning that she’s got the “vision”, or the capacity of seeing the past, present and future. The moon under her right breast denotes that Hecate is a moon goddess, and that she protects the women in labor and their offspring – the moon is associated to the motherhood. The black dog is one of her companions. watercolor and pencil on illustration board / 20×15

  • Watercolor and pencil on illustration board, / 15×20 / 2009 Related work: / The Waterman: Unio Mystica This is the second panel of The Waterman triptych. While the central panel represents the Christ as the macrocosm, the side panels are the microcosm, represented by the Four Elements and their manifestation in the physical world. Ignis Aeris is the yang pillar, the elements Fire and Air. Volatile and oriented upward, these elements are connected to the realms of the abstract thinking and intuition. Fire is the energy, passion and primeval instincts, that need to be balanced by the intellect (Air) in order to manifest in a most constructive way. The certainty of the Divine, that comes from the heart and from a primal knowledge, needs to be shaped by the intellect in order to become less aggressive and to expand (the butterflies rising from the fire and flying upward). Only through a perfect combination of faith and reason we can access the Divine and understand Its Laws. At the basis of the picture, handling the creative power of Fire, we see the Magician of the Tarot, which I represented wearing the skin of Nemean Lion, just like Greek hero Herakles. He represents the first step in the Hero’s Journey, or that path that each one of us need to find out and go through in order to become Whole with the Universe. The Magician is the one who uses his power of will (Fire) and mental skills (Air) in order to find his own path.

  • _Watercolor and pencil on paper, / 11×9 / 2009 Model: Iara Pires_

  • Oil on Board size 255×215mm

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