// TREEDOM FOR-REST: 2015
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1222 X 887
// Limited Edition GiclĂŠe Prints:
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net Completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1999 and a Diploma of Art & Creativity in 2006, Dusty continues to paint and exhibit, both in New Zealand and Australia. In 2014 he opened a gallery in Byron Bay with Stay Gold Studio where he continues to exhibit his work.
// STAY GOLD BEE GOLD: 2015
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1227 X 887
// Limited Edition Giclée Prints:
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// HYDRO SPECTRO: 2014
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1246 X 942
// Limited Edition Giclée Prints:
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
Dusty has acquired knowledge of the creative potential working for youth, a qualified Teacher, and Vocational Trainer specialising in Visual Arts and Digital Media Technology. Dusty sees the arts as the tools of culture, allowing him to identify and engage with those across culture with ease.
The play of the ocean’s surface leads Dusty to his own interpretation of its forces. His design pulls you into the curl of a wave, plunging you into the swash and backwash of colours as it passes over. His unique wave paintings communicate the speed, power and flow of a surfer’s experience.
// CANDALA CASCADA: 2014
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1227 X 886
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// MATŪKAI TE KOTUINGA: 2014
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1227 X 885
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(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
Accentuating the patterns that Dusty sees within the contours of the Land, Sea and Flora, his unique perspective and attentions takes a graphic approach to his artwork. Beginning conceptually through sketches, reduction and focus to produce a new design that reflects and captures Nature’s forms.
Dusty transposes his design to board with an exactness of composition, bending and thickening the lines to create a depth of perspective that encloses the viewer. With fine brush strokes he paints layers of base colours, or checkered monochrome shades of grey, underpainting for the depth of colour that is layered upon next.
// EPHEMERAL ETERNAL: 2009
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1200 X 860
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// TROPICAL CURL: 2009
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1200 X 860
// Limited Edition Giclée Prints:
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
Using bent paper clips, Dusty sits across the board and dips the wire into vibrant high-gloss enamels and acrylic paints. The paints surface tension clings to the wire and is released upon the surface of the work with a tap. To a rhythm Dusty takes meticulous care to create a textured surface with dashes, strokes, ridges, and paint pools with the wire.
Thoughtful colourways emerge where one colour scatters the surface of many base shades purposely left to reveal, creating the illusion of a second hue, provoking a sense of a parallel reality where yellow skies, blue suns and rainbow waters exist. Sunlight flashes and casts depth across the work and as you move around the painting it shows it’s life.
// SHAKA - Hawaiian ‘Aloha Spirit’: 2009
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1200 X 860
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// RESTLESS: 2009
Original Acrylic & Enamel on Board Framed, 1200 X 860
// Limited Edition Giclée Prints:
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
Having completed many commissions in the past, Dusty now prefers to be compelled to paint by his spirit alone, freeing him to take bolder risks to explore and express himself. Working at his own pace and volition, he creates finely crafted paintings with the finished quality of an inspired and original work.
Dusty focuses his attention to quickly sketch the essence of nature’s complexity in simple stand-out strokes. A finished painting however, can take years to complete, and the time spent on these works is palatable. The lifespan of the artwork is therefore enriched and paralleled by moments of Dusty’s own life over the years.
// ARCVORTEX: 2008
Original Ink Drawing, 420 x 297
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// FRACTAL ÁRBOL: 2007
Original Ink Drawing, 420 x 297
// Limited Edition Giclée Prints:
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
The things Dusty sees in nature may re-emerge in his art: The sunlit burrows of an Oak tree, it’s watercoloured leaves fractured by the inky silhouette of it’s branches; A rainbow sheen across the tiny windows of a Dragonfly’s wing, like a lead light design; The patterned spray of seed spores on a ferns underleaf; The tiled segments of a leathery starfish glossy against the coarse sand.
Dusty works the line observed in nature. This line is the trajectory in his stylization of elemental and life force themes, the locus of all his work. As he sees it, the line intends and traces, it is imbued with life, producing a moment of it’s own from and into the Dream.
// DRAGONFLY WING: 2004
Original Acrylic on Board, 1350 x 660
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// SUNLIT FERN: 2007
Original Acrylic on Board, 1200 x 860
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(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
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// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
Read sequentially Dusty’s works explore the multidimensionality, ubiquitousness and scale of the line as it functions to a universal analogy, existing as silent knowledge, often overlooked in everyday life, yet unmistakable and unforgettable wherever it is encountered.
In 1999, at 21, Dusty slept for six months in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens under a huge Redwood tree, immersing his own nature in the prolific nature surrounding him. Five years later he returned for 30 days and completed a series of still life sketches. Having carried half a dozen of these to a painted completion, he still draws upon these designs for inspiration.
// RADIX ARCUS - Latin ‘Root of the Arc’: 2004
Original Acrylic on Board, 900 x 560
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// TERRA ARCU - Latin ‘Arc of the Land’: 2004
Original Acrylic on Board, 1200 x 860
// Limited Edition Giclée Prints:
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
(e1) 25/25: 585 x 412 (e2) 100/100: 250 x 200 (e4) Unlimited: 200 X 140 mm
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
// Available Online @ www.eartharc.net
‘eartharc’™ is a symbol for Dusty’s work. Intrigued by the inward and outward forms of the arc, Dusty designed the eartharc motif in 2003 to acknowledge and represent his understanding of the grand design of nature: He sees all things as unique, yet interconnected and interdependent. Dusty has the eartharc tattooed on his forearm as a reminder.
The precision of Dusty’s work demands a meditative approach which connects him deeply and peacefully to the world both past and present. Dusty’s art bridges modern youth culture and ancient cultures. He produces profound yet grounded imagery with a timeless quality that belongs to no one particular culture yet feels familiar to all.