Surreal Paintings Gallery.
These surreal paintings are a combination of imagination and improvisation. Hence this makes them a combination of the two main forms of surrealism.
Most paintings in this gallery are for sale.
Limited edition prints are available on request.
Feel free to ring me on H: (02) 5698 5284 or M: 0450 492 504 or email me (go to contact page) for offers or questions.
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- Blue $1250 Oil on canvas 100 * 75 cm
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- The Birds $850 Oil on Canvas 60 * 90 cm
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- As I Walk $1350 Oil on canvas 84 * 84 cm
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- The Supreme Nebula $3000 Oil on canvas 100 * 120 cm
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- Aquamarine $3000 100 * 150 cm Oil on canvas
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- Organizmo $1150 Oil on Canvas 80 * 100cm
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- Porcupine Pie $275 Oil and ink 42 * 29 cm
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- Hallucination $440 Mixed Media 60 * 45 cm
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- Immaterial Monoliths $290 Oil and ink 42 * 29 cm
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- Majesty $1,500 Oil on Canvas 59 * 59 cm
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- Emerging Joys $240 Mixed Media on Canvas 60 * 45 cm
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- Splash 45 * 60 cm Mixed Media on Canvas. Sold
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- Onward $750 Mixed Media on Canvas 90 * 60 cm
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- Fortunata $180 Mixed Media on Canvas 25 * 32.5 cm
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- Light and Space $950 Oil on canvas 100 * 75 cm
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- Cadenza 100 * 100 cm Sold Oil on canvas
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- Bird of Paradise $180 Mixed Media on Canvas
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- A Rift in Time $290 Mixed media on Canvas 50 * 60 cm
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- Eye 40 * 50 cm Oil on canvas Sold
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- Piazza $260 Mixed media on Canvas 40 * 40 cm
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- Deep Sea Epitaph $240 Oil on Board 40.5 * 30.5 cm
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- Little Cosmos 45 * 45 cm Mixed Media on Canvas Sold
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- The Young Fisherman’s Dream $1480 Oil on Canvas 112 * 112 cm
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- A Meeting of Worlds 45 * 60 cm Oil on Canvas Sold
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- Misbehaviour $275 Mixed media on canvas 28 * 39 cm
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- Holograph $125 Mixed Media on Canvas 16 * 22 cm
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- The Moose that Laid the Golden Egg 45 * 60 cm Mixed Media on Canvas Sold
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- Ornaments $550 Oil on Board 52 * 42 cm
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- Geo – Abstract $135 Oil on canvas 20 * 20 cm
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- Stepped Landscape $250 Mixed media on Canvas 30 * 30 cm
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- Aeonians $225 Oil and Ink 42 * 29 cm
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- As Time Goes By 2 $155 Pencil on Paper 21.5 * 13.5 cm
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- The Window 40 * 40 cm Mixed Media on Canvas Sold
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- Utopian Junkyard $320 Oil on canvas 18 * 14.5 cm
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- When Landscapes Collide $290 Mixed Media 30 * 40 cm
Surreal Paintings
My surrealist works are wild and varied. Therefore, many are poetic representations of ideas or feelings which I have imagined or experienced. While others are based on dreams.
Some of these works are just confections and closer to the realm of fantasy. Still others are the opposite – purely improvised. First of all, these works begin with nothing more than the desire to paint. The paint goes on at random and the image grows and evolves. Often the concepts of these works evolve out of the process of painting.
Multiple Space.
The use of space in my surreal paintings is often ambiguous. Areas of paint shimmer, moving backwards and forwards within the implied three dimensional plane of the painted surface. These shifting perspectives are like those moments of transformation within dreams where reality changes to unreality, or where scenes or meanings alter suddenly. consequently, the titles of these pieces are usually poetic and invite the viewer to observe the painting from their own perspective.
This gallery and the surreal mixed media gallery are the closest to an abstract art gallery on this site. I prefer my art to have some sort of figurative element, so as the viewer can find something solid from which an interpretation of a painting can be based. My surreal works are largely based around the landscape with spiritual and human elements creeping in (and hopefully out) of them. My fantasy art is probably best suited to the young or young at heart.
Happy Creation $395 Oil on canvas 60 * 39 cm
Surreal art paintings.
Surreal art paintings should evoke the workings of the subconscious mind. Also, they should either remind one of dreams dreamt, or create a dreamlike state where the viewer can see things which may only be suggested by the forms in the surreal paintings. In contrast an abstract art gallery would contain paintings which do not evoke suggested imagery. Purely non-representative art has another agenda altogether.
Fantastic art or fantasy art is another type of art once again. It has a stronger tendency toward the figurative, and is more like the work adorning science fiction and fantasy book covers. Therefore, surreal fantasy art falls somewhere between fantasy and surreal art – there will be elements of both types of art in it. True Surrealist art does not have to be dark, does not have to contain clear imagery. Consequently, it can be whimsical and comical and may even be able to unlock secrets within the mind of the viewer.
My Surreal Paintings
Some of my surreal art paintings are close to the realm of abstract art. The use of improvisation, coupled with increasingly more ethereal and less objective imagery has led to this. However, I hope to bring form back into my surreal paintings moe in the near future. Abstract art is more about the painting’s process and traditional ideas about form and beauty. Surreal art paintings strive to express some meaning beyond the purely aesthetic.
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