"They say that ‘the eyes are windows to the soul’ that is certainly true of this new series of oil paintings.- Artis Gallery".
Each of these figurative works draw in the viewer to scratch at the soul beneath. The narratives display a historical element familiar to earlier work (‘Pakeha’ 2011) and spin dark tales of personal turmoil, judgement, revenge, debauchery, stoicism and sorrow. Depictions of notable persons are: Te Kooti in ‘The Upraised Hand’, Maraea Morete (Maria Morris) in ‘Salvation’ and a haunting likeness of Katherine Mansfield in ‘Postscript’. Fauna also play a considerable part in this show with an array of birds, sheep, horses, dogs and eels making appearance as special guests. These companions communicate a level of symbiotic understanding between mankind and animal where each require the other in order to survive, physically for them and spiritually for us.
