BEAUTIFUL EYES - ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 30X40CM, 2018

I am always fascinated by Balinese dance. This painting was inspired by the colorful make-up, costume and facial expressions of one such dance - the Legong. Flashes, glares and side-peeks of the eyes are all integral part of Legong. I made this painting to capture Legong's beauty and richness.

SAWAH LANDSCAPE 2 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 80x60CM 2018

Sawah landscape 2 - acrylic on canvas 80x60cm 2018

I am fond of sawah or rice fields landscape of Java and Bali. This rice field scene is from around Sumedang west java Indonesia. I will paint more sawah paintings soon and I aim to make sawah my painting theme in the future

TARI BARIS - ACRYLIC N CANVAS 80x100CM, 2018

Tari Baris - acrylic on canvas, 80x100cm, 2018

JACARANDA IN SYDNEY - Acrylic on canvas board 30x40 cm, 2017

November in Sydney Australia is spring time and the city is bathed in violet Jacaranda blooms. Jacaranda tress are everywhere in Sydney. One street in particular in the suburb of Kirribilli is well known for its "violet corridor". This painting is a depiction of that street viewed from the park.

ISTANA BOGOR - the making of

GILING PADI video

A fast and rough video made from a series of photographs of my "Giling Padi" painting to show its development from start to finish. Pardon the video quality as the photographs were taken in various lighting conditions

GILING PADI - Acrylic on canvas 50x60cm, 2017

This was a scene from one of my visits to Bali Indonesia where a group of men were working on a paddy field. It was harvest time and they were milling rice with a machine on the field, collecting the grains and bagging the stalks into sacks. The scene was so typical across Indonesia and in particular within Bali. It not only depicts the harvest of the staple food of the people - the rice - but it also illustrates the cooperative spirit of the community commonly referred to in Indonesia as "gotong royong".

I started the painting on October 3rd and finished it on October 31st. I took a series of time lapse photographs of the painting as it developed and I will make a movie out of the photo series.