Coffee Pots
Slender, graceful coffee pots add their distinctive beauty to a still life painting, often complementing the stalks of the flowers.
Slender, graceful coffee pots add their distinctive beauty to a still life painting, often complementing the stalks of the flowers.
These paintings feature our local flowers in an Asian context. We live in an oriental hemisphere and of necessity that affects our life.
Paintings of warm sunlight falling onto a tropical veranda warm the heart and lift the spirits.
Many vibrant market scenes can be seen on weekend mornings around Brisbane. They make great subject matter for paintings.
Nasturtium leaves and flowers are always a popular still life subject. They are always colourful and sometimes triffid like, giving rise to a great variety of still life paintings.
Many different types of eucalypt produce flowers. These flowers lend much character to our streets and suburbs. The blossoms make beautiful subject matter for still life painting.
Dragons are a feature of the myths and legends of many cultures and is shown very frequently on blue and white porcelain. I have selected still life studies of dragons depicted with Australian flowers.
Blue and white porcelain has been valued by collectors in many cultures and used in still life paintings for many centuries.
Camellias flower in early winter when not much else is flowering. Therefore they make great subjects for still life painting at that time of the year.
The royal purple of the tibouchina flowers beautify the streets and suburbs of Brisbane. Their rich colours can be seen almost all year round in Brisbane.