West Coast Mountain Stream

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
SKU: L-WCMS-AC
The high rainfall region of the West Coast gives rise to lush temperate rainforest, carved into by rushing streams. The beauty of this area is world-class.

Through The Lindis Pass

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
SKU: L-TTLP-AC
An area of stark beauty, inland Canterbury road traverse tussockland and mountain passes.

Lake Matheson, West Coast, New Zealand

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
SKU: L-LMWCNZ-AC
Known as ‘The Mirror Lake’, the pristine indigenous forest frames relections of New Zealand’s two highest peaks, Aorangi (‘Mt Cook’), and Mt Tasman.

Lake Wanaka Reflections II

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
SKU: L-LWR2-AC
Lake Wanaka is a beautiful lake in the South Island of New Zealand. One of a pair of pair of paintings that reveal the beauty of the autumn colours.

Aoraki /Mt Cook – Sheep in the Tussocks

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
SKU: L-MCSITT-AC
New Zealand’s tallest mountain stands at the head of a turquoise coloured finger-lake, ‘Pukaki’. Aoraki can be seen from both the east and west coasts of the beautiful ‘South Island’.

Castle Hill, Canterbury, New Zealand

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
SKU: L-CH-AC
Gigantic limestone outcrops appear in the distance, towering over those who free-climb the rocks, picnic in the summer, and toboggan down the slopes in winter.

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas.

River Valley Reflections I

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
SKU: L-RVR-AC

This is certainly one of my much loved New Zealand scenes! The first time I painted a version of this landscape, it was bought that very day! It depicts the right bank and shingle bed of the Waimakariri River as it wends its way past many snow-clad mountains, squeezes through a deep gorge (where internationally admired Hamilton Jets drivers test their navigating skills) and flows on across the Canterbury Plains to the east coast. A ‘braided’ river, the Waimakariri River carries tonnes of rocks and shingle off the mountains, building up the plains as it flows east. Typical of all braided rivers, the mighty waterway weaves through the very shingle that it has previously deposited, carving multiple channels that shift and re-form every time a flood moves through. When seen from above, a ‘braided’ river imitates plaits or braids of rope or hair.

Deep Shadows

Medium: Watercolour on Kilamanjaro paper
SKU: L-DS-WC

About one hour’s drive north of Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), several craggy volcanic peaks tower above pine plantations, eucalypt forests and open fields. Named by explorer Captain James Cook during his epic voyage along Australia’s east coast, the Glass House Mountains are rhyolite plugs formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago. The Glass House Mountains area was a special meeting place where many Aboriginal people gathered for ceremonies and trading. This place is considered spiritually significant with many ceremonial sites still present and protected today. This particular volcanic plug is called Mt Coonowrin, meaning ‘crooked neck’. Standing at c. 375 metres, it rises majestically above the surrounding landscape.

Franz Josef Glacier

Medium: Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
SKU: L-FJG-AC

The Franz Josef is a 12 km long glacier located in Westland National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier 20 km to the south, these two large glaciers are unique, in this temperate climate, in descending from the Southern Alps to less than 300 metres above sea level, amidst the greenery and lushness of a temperate rainforest. Guides escort people over and around and through the cracks and crevasses of the glacial ice-blocks which eerily creak and groan on their slow journey towards the valley floor.

Central Plateau Stream I

Medium: Watercolour
SKU: L-CPS-WC

The three volcanoes (Tongariro, Ruapehu, and Ngauruhoe) in New Zealand’s central North Island Tongariro National Park are easily viewed from great distances. One of New Zealand’s World Heritage sites, during all seasons local people and international adventurers engage in outdoor activities such as skiing, climbing and tramping, fishing, hot-water bathing, and camping.

Aorangi-Mt Cook from Lake Pukaki 2

Medium: Watercolour
SKU: L-AMCFLP-WC

On a typically beautiful clear winter day, the turquoise glacial-fed water of Lake Pukaki reflects New Zealand’s highest mountain.

Lake Camp

Medium: Watercolour
SKU: L-LC-WC

Lake Camp, and it’s larger neighbour Lake Clearwater, are two of the ‘Ashburton Lakes’ located in the upper reaches of the Rangitata River, about 40 minutes’ drive from the Alpine Sports town of Methven. It’s a great spot for picnics, camping, and water sports and as a base for exploring the hinterland of Canterbury.

Papatowai Beach

Medium: Oil on Stretched Canvas
SKU: L-PB-OC

Papatowai is a tiny settlement in the scenic Catlins District of New Zealand’s south-eastern coast.

Purple Field

Medium: Watercolour
SKU: L-PF-WC

A famer along the road from my studio sowed a crop of Phacelia – also known as Heliotrope, Tansy, Scorpionweed, and Lacy Phacelia. I spent a very happy time capturing the dramatic storm-clouds sky and the crop below from beside the road.

Lake Lyndon

Medium: Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
SKU: L-LL-AC

One of many small lakes that hug the foothills of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, Lake Lyndon is right beside the main road leading through a varied range of dramatic scenery, crossing the Main Divide to drop down through lush temperate rain forest to the West Coast.

Welsh Farmhouse

Medium: Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
SKU: L-WF-AC

In the northwest of Wales, this collection of buildings caught my eye close to sunset one summer evening. We were driving east towards our bed for the night, having been exploring Holyhead and the Island of Anglesey. Like a beacon, the house shone crisp and white against the late afternoon sky and the yellow field sloping away in front of it. Although there were other stone buildings alongside, the house itself stood out from the rest.

Summer by the Creek

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
SKU: L-SBTC-AC

My husband, Lyndsay, and I lived in the USA, in Nashville Tennessee, for twelve years. Our apartment was very close to the historic Belle Meade Plantation. In former days, horse-drawn carriages, bringing guests to parties at the owners’ fine house, would drive across a wooden bridge over Richland Creek, shown here, and right up to the massive front door.

Looking South from Taupo Lookout

Medium: Acrylic on board
SKU: L-LSFTL-AB

Lake Taupo, in the centre of New Zealand’s North Island, is a large Crater Lake, formed by a super-volcanic eruption approximately 26,000 years ago, the world’s largest eruption over the past 70,000 years! The Maori people who first inhabited this beautiful southern Pacific country did not arrive until about 1,000 years ago, so no lives were lost directly although there is a real possibility that the massive eruption contributed to the coming of the last ice age!