Most people have heard of method acting were an actor plays a roll in  
real life before acting it out on the big screen.

 

Something like this happened with my latest artwork.

For the past few months I’ve been driving a dump truck in the Central Queensland Coal fields, just down the road from Yeppoon (where I live). The truck I drive weighs about 250,000 kg and carries approximately the same weight. This has definitely inspired my latest artwork.

It was over two years since I'd had any real sort of job and I was getting kind of bored. Now I drive dump trucks. How I went from being a stockbroker to truck driver is something even I cannot explain.

Dump Truck

200cm x 150cm acrylic on canvas

The Dump Truck is part of the Gallery Series. The painting sold last year on eBay. I hope to be painting more dump trucks in the near future. Ultimately I want to paint life size dump trucks and sell them for the same price as the real ones.  

Coal Sculptures

I love the look and feel of coal and I can not believe that people do not appreciate it's natural beauty. One day Tiffanies will be selling coal instead of diamonds. People should be worshiping coal idols not golden idols. Coal is just absolutely beautiful to look at.

Doing coal sculptures is something I'll be doing in the future. I am just trying to get the presentation right.