Original Paintings
All originals (not prints or reproductions). Most of the work here is offered for sale and prices are quoted in Australian Dollars. This does not include any freight or delivery costs which will vary. If you click to purchase we will be in contact via email to sort out the cost of freight as this will vary depending on where you are. Payment can then be made via direct credit or cheque in Australian Dollars. (Payment available in NZ dollars also.) Once payment has been made the painting will be shipped to you.
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The paintings are framed and in some cases have glass. You can see the actual frames in the images
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Did You See The Sky This Morning?
Oil on linen canvas, AU$1,950.00, 53X79 cm. Tabitha had to attend the Austin Hospital for minor surgery on 19 March 2003, had to get there very early in the morning and looking left while crossing the footbridge from the car park noticed the spectacular sky and decided to make a painting of it. Every man or woman of the hospital staff who ministered to her started by saying “did you see the sky this morning?” The date is also significant as the start of the Iraq war.
$ 1,950.00
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We Were Young in Westmoreland
Speaks for itself. Oil on board, 56cm x 47cm AU$900, The caravan once belonged to Gypsy Lee, who parked it on someone’s land for a small sum and it remained there when Gypsy Lee died. The landowner let art students from Manchester stay there in the holidays, also for a small sum. We didn’t romp naked, in case you’re wondering.
$ 900.00
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Taihape Road Works
SOLD Oil on board NFS This painting was done from Tabitha’s front room window in Taihape. Her studio was at the back of the house and she ran backwards and forwards between the two until she realised she could actually move the easel to the front. The work was very favourably critiqued when exhibited in Wellington and had its photograph in the catalogue, which prompted write ups and photos in the local paper.
$ 0.00
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Desert Road
Oil on canvas, NFS. While living in Taihape frequent trips were made along the Desert Road, a wonderful source of creativity. Tabitha produced many Desert Road works, since sold.
$ 0.00
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Latvian Landscape
Oil on linen canvas, 94cm x 63cm ,AU$3,000.00 Also speaks for itself. It’s very flat, a challenge to create great distance using only colour.
$ 3,000.00
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Desert Road in a Darker Mood
Oil on board, 64cm x 52cm AU$900.00. Pylons are part of life now and cannot be ignored.
$ 900.00
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Fido the Fairfield Dog
Oil on board, 50cm x 65cm AU$900.00. This icon of Fairfield to conform with the Darebin Council’s instructions to produce a work showing something indigenous to Darebin City. There was a prize. Fido didn’t win. He is a wonderful structure outside Fairfield Station. His tail wags, his eyes light up and I think one time he barked.
$ 900.00
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Ward 5b
Oil on board, 43cm x 55cm AU$900.00. I don’t want to talk about this; it brings back the terrors of my son’s road accident and his five months in hospital and four operations. I made the painting from a pencil drawing I did on the day he’d been told he needed a further operation. He recovered and is a well and happy man.
$ 900.00
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Houses in Leipaja
Oil on canvas, 53cm x 42cm AU$1,200.00. Studied for ten minutes when the bus stopped there on the journey from Klaipeda to Riga. I thought they deserved best quality linen canvas.
$ 1,200.00
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Rachel Weeping for her Children
Oil on board, 56cm x 66cm AU$800.00. Another dark mood. Painted from the memory of a pastel I made of the subject years earlier. It was sold, you could say, I never got the money. I think this oil is more sinister than the original.
$ 800.00
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Landscape Victoria
Oil on board, 70cm 51cm AU$1,000.00. I’ve no idea what these black heaps are, nor the white patch but I know I saw all this while being driven by a friend. I made a thumbnail sketch at the time so I know it’s true. I always mix my own black, a secret recipe I learned at Liverpool Art School. It stands forwards instead of sinking into a hole as would happen if I were to use black from the tube.
$ 1,000.00
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Taranaki seascape
Pastel, NFS Seen from the window of a café in New Plymouth one beautifully dull morning. Very evocative of that coast.
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Sydney Backyard
Ink. 46cm x 38cm AU$450.00 Backyards are glimpsed from suburban train windows and are a source of delight. The process involves making a pencil drawing then applying white designer’s gouache to all the light parts, thinly where half the tones are needed. Indian ink is painted over the whole. When that’s dry the paper is washed under the cold tap when the white paint lifts off. Good quality paper is essential.
$ 450.00
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City Abstract
Oil on board, 53cm x 43cm AU$1,000.00, 53x43 cm. My most recent work, based on cities I have seen and experienced.
$ 1,000.00
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William in His Purple Hat
Pastel, 55cm x 75cm AU$1,000.00. This portrait was made when William was about 13 years old. He looked like a medieval herald in the hat a friend’s mother had given him. He refused to pose unless he had his dog Bebe on his knee. I kept this picture, not wanting to part with it but recently, deciding it’s such an excellent work it deserves to be out in the world (William is now 51).
$ 1,000.00
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Alison
Pastel, 33cm x 43cm AU$800.00, 43x33 cm. This is also a portrait sketch from long ago. It was in my sister’s possession, I claimed it back when she died recently. I’m particularly pleased with it, I marvel that I could draw so accurately and sensitively with great crumbling lumps of soft pastel. I think I can’t do that any more.
$ 800.00
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King Country Rocks
Pastel, NFS,36 X 54 cm. It’s not for sale because it’s no longer mine, it belongs to my husband. The rocks remind us of a huddle of old men plotting something.
$ 0.00
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Backyard
Pastel 55cm x 45cm AU$540.00. Same backyard as the ink process.
$ 540.00
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Motueka Mud Flats
Pastel, 57cm x 47cm AU$900.00, 47 x 57 cm. Seen around dusk from the road from Motueka to Nelson.
$ 900.00
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House in Vilnius
Gouache, 43cm x 38cm AU$540.00. Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania this is a suburban timber house. Not only did the house intrigue me but it has a cat in the window. Couldn’t resist it.
$ 540.00
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View from Hamilton Island
Water colour, AU$300.00, 30x35.5 cm. Hamilton Island is a resort off the coast of Queensland. We spent a week there in the middle of winter, which of course was pleasantly warm and conducive to sketching. I’d taken water colours and sketch pads on my first visit to Queensland.
$ 300.00
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Great Barrier Reef
Water colour, 35cm x 30cm AU$300.00, 30x35.5 cm. Executed at the same time as above, day trip on ferry to the reef.
$ 300.00
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Suburban Abstract
Linocut, 27cm x 22cm AU$300.00, 22.5x28 cm. This is one of the last lino cuts I executed, my wrists are too old now to do any more.
$ 300.00
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