Restart of The Small Paintings Project

Study for The Last Day of Summer, 2010
Oil on linen panel, 14.6 x 14.6cm (5 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches)

I have recently restarted The Small Paintings Project. A blog where I will be posting a new small painting every week which can be purchased online. These small paintings are studies and explorations of subject matter & ideas that may lead towards larger studio paintings. Priced at AUD$450 each, these original oil paintings are affordable to collectors compared to my canvases which start at $2,500 (for 1 ft sq painting) and up to $36,000 for a very large painting.


This small painting is a study for a larger painting titled The Last Day of Summer. It's a detail of the roof of the beach kiosk at Semaphore Beach. A place I've been a thousand times before, but on this day it suddenly appeared to me as an ideal subject for a painting. I was walking back from the Semaphore Palais after having dinner with Dianne. Salt & Pepper squid, A Cooper's Pale Ale, a warm night and foreboding clouds at sunset. Everything was just right and I noticed something I have always ignored before, the kiosk.

I'm planning 2 versions of this painting. A 1ft square one which will be a similar composition to this, to be exhibited in Perth and a major painting that captures most of the building, the trees, path to the beach showing the sky meeting the sea. The major painting will be for my exhibition in November at Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne