Everywhere and Nowhere

Just before Christmas I proudly installed my first ever custom piece at Balmain dentist, Dentistry by Design. Unusually for my work in 2024, it was purely abstract. The only abstract painting I completed in the year!

I was very happy with the work and titled it “Feels Like Summer” in view of the general level of brightness and the time of year. I posted about it on Instagram and was actually kind of overwhelmed by the response. 2024 was a big year with both a group and solo exhibition of urban landscapes and so the large abstract (my largest finished work) was almost an afterthought! Then to find people really responding to it was both rewarding and unexpected.

Probably MORE unexpected was that someone reached across the world from my home town of Edinburgh and asked to purchase it almost immediately! The idea of the ‘mini-gallery’ at Dentistry By Design was just to help them with their very bare walls while giving some of my larger pieces a bit of exposure. Frankly I had been expecting to replace them on rotation only about once a quarter . Replacing it after only 10 days was of course a nice problem to have.

So, with a bit of prep and a bit of drying time I recently replaced “Feels Like Summer” with my newest work “Everywhere and Nowhere”. This one started life as potentially an abstraction of a wodded scene but I was inspired to pivot a few hours in when I glimpsed an unintended reflection around the horizontal axis. Of course it’s not a real scene but it evokes many views of my own home environs on the edge of Sydney Harbour so the title came quickly. It’s everywhere and it’s nowhere. Both pieces are shown here. Hope you like them!

Everywhere and Nowhere - Original Oil on Canvas 130cm x 97cm

Feels Like Summer - Original Oil on Canvas 130cm x 97cm