The imposter stands proudly on the sideboard, its painted feathers shining in the afternoon light. This Kohler wind-up tin bird, a 1950s treasure, is a quirky example of human creativity. When you twist the key, it coils up a spring, and when it’s let go, the...
I was six years old when Apollo 17 landed on the moon, NASA’s final Apollo mission. The memory remains vivid, a black-and-white flicker on our television set, ghostly figures bounding across a distant world. I didn’t fully understand the magnitude of what...
Evening light settles across the surface of a rooftop pool, transforming an ordinary recreational space into something closer to a temporary harbour. The water becomes the dominant field of the composition, its luminous turquoise surface occupying most of the canvas....
All paintings carry memories, the season, a reason, or a lifetime experience, which often impact the painting’s journey in the studio. Destination Unknown will always remind me of the very unexpected death of my Mum. It was a jarring experience to leave a...
Here is a moment, just before the weather turns, when the air feels suspended. Stopover lives in that pause. A Beechcraft 18 on floats circles above a rooftop pool, its steady orbit calm and deliberate, as if it too is undecided. Below, the water lies impossibly...
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