Rottnest Island Paintings
Celebrate the days of summer. Storybook times when life slows down and children play as if the day will last forever. Quiet nights, bright stars and the gentle sound of boats moored close to the shore.
Art helps you remember that feeling of freedom and simplicity.
These original oil paintings of Rottnest Island can take you back there. Every day.
Bliss |
Oil on Linen Painting
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KN79 |
You’re at Rottnest, and it feels like a party because the place casts a spell over you. The clouds turn into balloons as the spirit of the place lifts you. The island transforms your thinking, and you feel happy and carried away by its charm.
Enchantment |
Oil on Linen Painting
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YL79 |
When the sun goes down at Rottnest, you see all the lovely colours. Perth is turning gold and pink in the sunset. All the lights are coming on and starting to sparkle. The evening light still shines into the water, turning it into a vivid turquoise. I find it mesmerising and enchanting.
High Summer On The Island |
Oil on Linen Painting
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WM99 |
I love those warm summer days at Rottnest. The blue on blue of sky and sea. The boats and the beaches.
Kingdom Of Our Summer |
Oil on Linen Painting
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LV96 |
There is Thomsons Bay, the cottages on Kelly Street, the West End, beaches and the bays. This is our summer escape.
Radical Optimist |
Oil on Linen Painting
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MK59 |
I have always felt in a more optimistic frame of mind when I’m at Rottnest. The beaches and the ships delight me. I’ve made the clouds party balloons to capture the joy of being there. It’s a magical place that brings out the best in me.
Sacred Summer |
Oil on Linen Painting
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HN99 |
Rottnest Island in the summer time.
Great Big River |
Oil on Linen Painting
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JM64 |
Magpies and green parrots soar over the great big river that runs from the city of Perth down to the ocean at Fremantle. The Jacarandas are in bloom, Dingo guards the coast, and cargo ships ply their trade in Gage Roads, coming into the port.
Sweet Dreams Where Sunbeams Find You |
Oil on Linen Painting
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MN83 |
This is the way a child experiences Rottnest. It’s not so much about the island itself. It’s all about moving from one fun place to another. I am highlighting a hundred beautiful, exotic bays, different headlands, different places to go swimming. This is a child’s map of holiday fun.
Rottnest Star Shower |
Oil on Linen Painting
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PM10 |
I have a lovely memory of Rottnest. I am standing on the small jetty in Thomson Bay. A group of excited children are fishing for squid with their parents. It’s dark and I am looking back towards the settlement and the sea wall. All the houses have their lights on. You can see Board Cottage in the right foreground. There’s the boathouse with the green door there in the centre. The stars are playful because Rottnest is a place of delight and discovery for children.
Selected Sold Works
Rottnest Holiday |
$2,450.00 |
Oil on Linen Painting
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NZ31 |
You can feel the magic as you make the crossing. Leaving on the ferry from Fremantle is the start of your escape. The ships, the water, the freedom of Rottnest. Every day is a holiday.
Rottnest |
$5,600.00 |
Oil on Linen Painting
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QL65 |
This about total joy. It’s about happiness at the end of a lovely day at Rottnest. There’s a beautiful sunset and you become more aware of all the fabulous things going on around you.
Rottnest’s Wet and Sandy Hugs |
$5,500.00 |
Oil on Linen Painting
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SR27 |
This is about kids and their beach holidays. There are the whales coming in for a visit past Cottesloe and Rottnest. You can see the Dingo Flour sign, lighthouses and even the pretend smugglers cave at Bathers Beach. Giant cargo ships cruise in and out of the harbour. Really this is a children’s paradise.
Rottnest Waits For You |
$2,900.00 |
Oil on Canvas Painting
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TW77 |
Here is our golden place. Like a sparkling brooch we wear on our summer. Again we rediscover with the beaches of our lost selves.
Cottesloe and Rottnest |
$5,350.00 |
Oil on Linen Painting
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HM63 |
Here are two places that so many of us go to escape our routine. And relax. To me, the ships are our problems that can loom large when they are up close. Time and perspective sees them retreat to dots on the horizon.
A Shooting Star In Your Pocket |
$2,560.00 |
Oil on Linen Painting
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LH66 |
Stars are peeping out at twilight. They sparkle on the water. There’s a slow moonrise. Headlights are leading us home. We share the precious seconds of a shooting star. All memories we keep close in a pocket.