Leo notes...

Years ago on a holiday in Malaysia I bought a small painting that intrigued me because it depicted a simple landscape that was not painted but made up entirely by small slivers of bamboo glued to a black background. It seemed an interesting alternative to my painting in oils but because the right bamboo was not easy to obtain I started to experiment with balsa wood instead. From making simple flower and portrait pictures it gradually developed into something more involved when I found that working with balsa wood in this way provided a new way to give expression to my long held interest in the local architecture from years past and eventually this resulted in the construction of small scale and almost 3-dimensional replicas of the old time houses and buildings that are typical for the region in which I live. If you happen to live in the state of Queensland, my balsa wood buildings will be easy recognisable and may provide added interest and you will find an excellent source of further information here.  More recently, however, I started to make some items that will have a wider appeal and these are pictured in a separate gallery below. But regardless of where in the world you are located, if you are "crafts minded" the results will speak louder than the object itself.  Every item is 100% hand-made in Australia and a definite "one-of".

 

Please keep checking back as these galleries will be updated at intervals