I recently found these preliminary drawings I did for the 2014 Landscape oil painting exhibition. They were quick sketches to work out the shape of the landscape and then some border lines were added to […]
I recently found these preliminary drawings I did for the 2014 Landscape oil painting exhibition. They were quick sketches to work out the shape of the landscape and then some border lines were added to […]
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It is part of a series of four works. I was working quickly with the paper laid directly on a lino’ tiled […]
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It is part of a series of four works. 1 2 3 4
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It is part of a series of four works. 1 2 3 4
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It’s from a series of four works and was sold at an exhibition in 1996. 1 2 3 4 The frames for […]
These two drawings titled Despondent Chimp’ 1 and 2 are from 1996. They are produced with charcoal and coloured chalk on paper. The frames are made with beautiful recycled timber rescued from an old wharf […]
This exhibition was titled The New Zealand Hills and had a large number of oil paintings that were just 200mm square but framed in large, ornate gold profiles. Many of the works were sold at the […]
Thought Lines 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
Spiccato Hills in Six-Eight 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Yellow Reverie 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Road Trip 3 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Looking Down at Emerald Bay 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Back Paddocks 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
In Time, I Recall 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Road Trip 1 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Road Trip 6 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Beyond the Blue Pines 2 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Unfamiliar Territory 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Spiccato Hills in Seven-Eight 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Ground Swell 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
Equilibrium 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Arrival 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Road Trip 2 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Road Trip 4 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Ruahine Drift 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
Beyond the Blue Pines 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Road Trip 5 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
I’m thrilled to say my new painting titled Field Colour has been selected, from over 1200 works from around the world, as a finalist in the 2013 Fleurieu Art Prize. The winner of the $60,000 […]
One of the two landscape works exhibited in the d’Arcy Doyle Art Awards.
Exhibition of Landscape Oil Paintings by Guy Chapman Opening 6-8pm on Tuesday 19 February 2013 at Queen Street Gallery, Woollahra It is a great honour to have the highly respected Indigenous elder Charles ‘Chicka’ Madden […]
This oil painting was produced in 2013 on 30 canvas panels each 200mm square. The work is a continuation of the landscape theme in the 2013 exhibition
I’m having an exhibition of new landscape paintings at the Queen Street gallery in Woollahra. Opening 6-8pm on Tuesday 19 February 2013 These are small oil paintings based on the New Zealand hills. They range […]
Martin Luther was a bit of a prick really, I never did like having him over to stay. He was so fucking impatient, always banging on the bathroom door while I was trying to back-one-out […]
This sculpture was welded up from old bicycles and figures cut from sheet metal with the oxy acetylene torch. It was fun, you could ride it like a bike and the head-piece would rotate in […]
Akaroa Hills – A series of sketches using charcoal, pencil and graphite on paper. Size is around 80mm square. 31/12/2006 Akaroa, New Zealand.
The full title of this oil painting is… The Beggar Feeling Awkwardly Clad in Saint Martin’s Famous Cloak. It has to do with some Latin words – cappa, capella, cappella, capellani – the tendency humans […]
This painting is titled Sowers and is from 1991. It was sold at an exhibition a while later. It was about Reagan and Gaddafi, who were in power at the time, and their insane behaviour […]
Saint Martin, let’s call him Pony Boy, just couldn’t leave that Beggar alone. This is an oil painting triptych, with the Beggar, before and after Mr Martin has so kindly chopped off and handed out part […]
This ‘I wanna…’ art work was printed and mounted on foam core 100w x 130h mm for an exhibition at Baby Enzo cafe, bar and restaurant that in 1995. Following image titles were hand-written on cards […]
I’m not sure the Fruit Catcher really appreciates the good things in life that come his way. He’s a little distracted by his melancholy thoughts of lost love. He needs to learn that a ripe fruit […]
Face 3 – Charcoal and oil paint on paper. 1995 Sydney. Private collection
Charcoal and oil paint on paper. 1995 Sydney. Private collection
Face 1 – Charcoal and oil paint on paper. 1995 Sydney. Private collection
Figure in a red propellor hat – charcoal drawing on paper from 1995.
Red Hat 1 – Figure wearing a red hat backwards – charcoal drawing on paper from 1995.
This is a self portrait produced in 1991 with all the stuff of life around me and that questioning look that can be read as intense thinking or may just be concentrating on painting. Sold […]
I’ve been organising some old images of earlier works and came across this oil painting. Scent is from 1991 and was built up over time with numerous layers and glazes. It was sold along the […]
Avocado is an oil painting that was hung in one of the the L’otel exhibitions. It sold to someone who said it was a gift for a friend or associate. This was one of my […]
Knee Lip is a preliminary drawing that was later used in a painting of the same name.
A charcoal drawing on paper produced in 1991 as a preliminary for the oil painting Luther In My Lounge Room.
Oil painting on canvas of gum leaves. Private collection.
Like dreams, paintings are all about yourself, everything is a self portrait. In this one I am at once Benedicta and Piggyman, perhaps we all are, depends if it’s a good day or not. Don’t feel […]
Saint George, later in life, meets another dragon and things don’t go as well as they did last time. George has had a good life but when he gets older and a bit wiser he […]
Preliminary drawing…
After El Greco. An oil painting of Saint Martin and the Beggar. You may note how this painting depicts the other not-so-saintly works of Mr Martin. He gives no portion of his cape to the […]
Overlooking the beach, near the northern tip of the South Island of New Zealand, in a place called Collingwood. A quick sketch of a house that was for sale many years ago.
The pencil sketch was done from the roof of the Flinders Street campus of The City Art Institute of Sydney in 1988. The acrylic painting was made from the drawing but I think the original pencil […]
Three small sketches in paint of New Zealand Hills at different times of day. From around 1987.
A quick sketch in monochrome oil paint from 1987… and the original.
A time exposure self portrait photograph from 1987 in Melbourne.
A pencil drawing of a gum tree in Mount Martha, Mornington, Victoria, Australia – 1987
Beer and Cigarettes. A triptych of charcoal drawings on brown paper. Mount Martha, Victoria 1987. There was something I liked about these, I think it was the feeling of a long hot Australian summer […]
A quick photographic snap of people walking by at the Sydney waterfront in 1986.
I’ve spent all day rationalising off this melancholy dew… but here comes dusk again, setting on my shoulder Title – The Maudlin Melancholic Muse – A reduction print using water based ink on paper, 1986
Picassoid Figure – a charcoal drawing on paper from 1985.