Painting History

Replay


Building

watercolour on craft paper
50 x 55 cm, 2008
Building



The Game

watercolour
50 x 65 cm, 2008
The Game



Painting

watercolour
65 x 50 cm, 2008
Painting



Untitled - Planes

gouache and ink on craft paper
41 x 29 cm, 2008
Untitled - Planes



The Model

watercolour on craft paper
34 x 29 cm, 2008
The Model




Painting History / History Painting


By painting history through museum dioramas, I seek to represent representation rather than history itself.  My careful and accurate paintings strategically fall short of the grand narrative tradition called history-painting and instead recall the amateurish, playful and naïve world of war games, illustration and toy soldiers.  To this end, my paintings demonstrate something of the constructiveness of history and may allegorically suggest how our current military actions around the world may be represented in the future.


Action Paintings



Falaise Gap

watercolour, gouache
3 papers, ea. 35 x 55 cm, 2007
Falaise Gap



Ambush

watercolour, gouache
35 x 55 cm, 2007
Ambush



D-Day Up Close watercolour each 19 x 25cm   2008



Stretcher Bearers

watercolour
18 x 25 cm, 2008
Stretcher Bearers



Mons

watercolour
22 x 26 cm, 2008
Mons



Over the Top

watercolour
18 x 27 cm, 2008
Over the Top



Figure

watercolour
21 x 26 cm, 2008
Figure



Radar

watercolour
21 x 26 cm, 2008
Radar



Gun Pit

watercolour
21 x 26 cm, 2008
Gun Pit



Bunker

watercolour
21 x 27 cm, 2008
Bunker



HQ

watercolour
18 x 25 cm, 2008
HQ




Bombs

watercolour
22 x 17 cm, 2008
Bombs



Napoleonics

watercolour
21 x 26 cm, 2008
Napoleonics



Paardeberg Drift

engraving, drypoint
45 x 60 cm, 2007
Paardeberg Drift



Rebels

engraving, chine collé
15 x 22 cm, 2007
Rebels




Figures

oil on paper
42 x 30 cm, 2008
Figures



Trench

oil on paper
42 x 30 cm, 2008
Trench



Working Up

oil on paper
42 x 30 cm, 2008
Working Up



Paardeberg Drift, 1900

gouache, model paint, paper, masonite,
30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2007
Paardeberg Drift, 1900



Redcoats

watercolour, gouache, paper,
21 x 36 cm, 2006
Redcoats



Vimy Ridge, 1917

watercolour, gouache, paper,
35 x 50 cm, 2006
Vimy Ridge, 1917



Trench Raid

watercolour, gouache, paper,
30 x 40 cm, 2007
Trench Raid

Sarajevo 1992

watercolour, gouache, paper,
35 x 55 cm, 35 x 55 cm, 2007
Sarajevo 1992



Jump Tower

watercolour, gouache, paper,
35 x 40 cm, 35 x 33 cm, 2007
Jump Tower



Western Front, 1915

watercolour, gouache, paper,
36 x 37 cm, 36 x 50 cm, 2007
Western Front, 1915



Gun Deck

watercolour, gouache, paper,
41 x 57 cm, 2007
Gun Deck