Fire Abstraction
How can you reduce the concept of fire? What are the basic elements that say ‘fire’? The basic form of fire is not fixed, and may include the the flame (another set of paintings), the centre of heat, the frontal zone, the attack and effects of the attack. The paintings in this set approach the questions. Over time, I hope to add the this collection.
Fire Abstraction 1
Acrylic on canvas, painted 2015, approx 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie.
Fire Abstraction 2
Acrylic on canvas, painted 2015, approx 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie.
Fire Flame
Up close and the movement of flames is constant. The forms flow freely, framed by the fuel. The colours of red and white, against night sky.
Fire Flame 1
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 75 x 100 cm, photographed by P. McGee Oct 2022.
Fire Flame 4
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 75 cm, photographed by P. McGee Oct 2022.
Fire Flame 6
Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, photographed by P McGee Oct 2022.
Fire Flame 7
Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, photographed by P McGee Oct 2022.
Fire Forest
This set of paintings presents trees during fire. In some, the fire is the focus, and in others, the tree.
Fire Forest 1
Acrylic on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm.Photo by E Etie. SOLD
Fire Forest 2
Acrylic on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie. SOLD
Fire Forest 4
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie.
Fire Forest 5
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 100 x 75 cm. Photographed April 2025 by P McGee
Fire Forest 4
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie.
Fire Forest 6
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie. NFS
Fire Forest 7
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie. NFS
Fire Forest 8
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 100 x 75 cm. Photographed by P. McGee Feb 2023. SOLD
Fire Forest 9
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 100 x 75 cm, photographed April 2025 by P. McGee.
Fire Forest 10
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 1 m x 75 cm, painted 2015. Photo by M. Ricket NFS
Fire Forest 11
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 100 x 75 cm, photographed by P. McGee Oct 2022.
Fire Forest 12
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 1 m x 75 cm, photographed by P McGee June 2023.
Fire Horizon
Light along the horizon can be interpreted in many ways. I have seen dotted light and glare along the horizon and wondered whether I am looking at a city or town, or fire. These paintings reduce the effect to what we can only see at night. In that sense they are also nightscapes.
Fire Horizons 2
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie.
Fire Horizons 3
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie.
Fire Horizons 4
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie. SOLD.
Fire Horizons 5
Acrylic and sand on canvas,100 x 75 cm, photographed P. McGee Oct 2022.
Fire Horizons 6
Acrylic on canvas 100 x 80 cm, photographed by M. Ricketts May 2019.
Fire Horizons 7
Acrylic and sand on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm.
Fire Horizons 9
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 1 m x 75 cm, painted 2016. Photo by M. Rickets. Hung in the Wingecarribee Art Competition 2017. SOLD
Fire Horizons 10
Acrylic with sand on canvas, 165 x 35 cm, photographed by M. Ricketts, Feb 2018. SOLD
Fire Horizons 11
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 1 m x 75 cm, photographed May 2021 by P McGee.
Fire Horizons 12
Acrylic with sand on canvas, 75 x 100 cm, photographed by P McGee May 2021.
Fire Horizons 13
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 81 x 75 cm, photographed by P McGee Feb 2023 .SOLD
Fire Horizons 14
Acrylic with sand on canv.
Fire in 3 Parts
Fire in 3 Parts
Fire in 3 Parts: Fire of London
Acrylic on canvas 80 x 100 cm, photographed by M Rickets, 2018. SOLD
Fire Landscape
Active fire is heat: it leads to destruction. The effect of severe fire can be seen on land and air: a strange unity. The strange unity of severe fire at ground level is absent when you look down on the landscape. Strange blackened shapes emerge on the surface, to be replaced with greens as the vegetation recovers..
Fire Landscape 1
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 75 cm, photographed by P. McGee Oct 2022.
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by P McGee October 2021, repainted.
Fire Landscape 3
Acrylic on canvas, painted 2015, 100 x 75 cm. Photo by E Etie. SOLD
Fire Landscape 4
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 75 cm, photographed by P McGee October, 2021, repainted.
Fire Landscape 5
Acrylic on canvas, 1 m x 75 cm, painted 2015.Photo by M. Rickets. SOLD
Fire Landscape 6
Acrylic on canvas, 1 m x 75 cm, painted 2015.Photo by M. Rickets. SOLD
Fire Landscape 8
Acrylic on canvas, 2016, 100 x 75 cm. photo by M. Rickets. SOLD
Fire Landscape 9
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, photographed by P. McGee Oct 2022
Fire Landscape 8
Acrylic on canvas, 2016, 100 x 75 cm. photo by M. Rickets. SOLD
Fire Landscape 10
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, photographed by P. McGee. Feb 2023.
Fire Landscape 11
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, photographed by P. McGee Oct 2022
Fire Landscape 13
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, photographed April 2025 by P. McGee
Fire Line
This set of paintings began accidentally. Paint stuck to the brush when I was preparing a study, perhaps because of the cold and a thick mixture. The result left a line up the painting which said something quite different to what I was intending. The larger paintings deliberately build on the idea of fire as a line in the landscape, separating the burnt and unburnt.