2017 acrylic on canvas 760 x 1010mm $1750
This is Salzburg, Austria, the old city centre. The view is from the high castle called Festung Hohensalzburg, as seen by the artist in August 2017.

2017 acrylic on canvas 404 x 510mm $350
A view of Amsterdam's old city at night. This is Achterzijds Voorburgwal in the red light district.

2018 Acrylic on canvas 303 x 404mm $290

This was inspired by the Soundgarden Pub, Amsterdam, sitting outside beside the canal in the late afternoon with a pint of Budels. Mokum is an old nickname for Amsterdam. The flag of Amsterdam is seen lower left, with the three X's.

2017 liquid acrylic on canvas 303 x 404mm $290

2017 liquid acrylic on canvas 303 x 404mm $290

2017 liquid acrylic on canvas 303 x 404mm $220

2017 liquid acrylic on canvas 404 x 510mm $280

2017 acrylic on canvas 303 x 404mm sold
This is a view of one of the boat sheds in Evans Bay, Wellington, NZ.

2017 acrylic on canvas 300 x 400mm sold

2012 acrylic on canvas 455 x 610mm $650
A close-up of the sea’s surface on a day with a gentle breeze. The sea pictured is in Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Island, New Zealand.

2017 acrylic on canvas 404 x 510mm $350
This is a new cycleway and footpath in Auckland. It runs through Spaghetti Junction along the old Nelson Street off-ramp.

2017 liquid acrylic on canvas 254 x 508mm $220
This is a view of Whananaki estuary in Northland, New Zealand.

2017 acrylic on canvas 254 x 508mm $220
This is a view of the new Waterview motorway tunnel in Auckland, NZ, before it had opened to traffic. I was there on a public open day for cyclists.

2014 acrylic on canvas 455 x 610mm sold
Hot Water Beach is on the East Coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Natural hot springs bubble up through the sand, but can only be accessed at low tide. For several hours around the low tide, dozens of people descend on the hot spot on the beach with spades and dig themselves small hot pools in the sand. The result is a free hot mineral spa pool - until the returning tide finally sends a cold wave over the whole thing. The crowd is watched over by two young women who are surf lifesavers.

2016 acrylic on canvas 760 x 1012mm $750
This painting is a stylised memory of Christchurch the way it used to be...

2016 acrylic on canvas 505 x 760mm $450

2016 acrylic on canvas 455 x 605mm $450
Tidal Ripples – a close-up of overlapping ripples of the sea as the tide comes in at Mairangi Bay, NZ.

2017 acrylic on canvas 506 x 406mm sold
This view is from the Tongariro Crossing Track in the central North Iskand. The view shows the volcanic peak of Mount Ngauruhoe, with Mount Tongariro's South Crater in the centre of the painting.

2012 acrylic on canvas 506 x 406mm $450
The painting shows a group of locals in the street in Madurai, India.

2016 acrylic on canvas 303x404mm $280

2017 liquid acrylic on canvas 254 x 508mm $220
This is a view of Whatipu campground, west coast, Auckland, NZ, seen at night - with the light beam of the nearby lighthouse flashing across the field in the foreground.

2015 acrylic on canvas 455 x 605mm $450
This is a close-up of the light on the rippling water of Hamilton Lake, also known as Lake Rotoroa.

2016 acrylic on board 457 x 665mm $550
This painting spans the decades and several changes of style. It was started in 1999 on Waiheke Island, where the hardboard panels were cut to shape and assembled in the frame. In 2005 the sky and mountains were painted, and in 2016 the foreground was completed.
It is painted on three layers, with the mountains and the foreground hills being on separate jigsaw-cut hardboard layers, giving a 3d effect overall. The sky was made by pouring paint, and the foreground by various methods including spattering, cutouts, and marker pens.

2016 acrylic on canvas 510 x 510mm $380
Planet Rangitoto shows Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf around the edge of a circular sea.
The landmasses shown are (anti-clockwise from the top): Rangitoto Island, Waiheke, Motutapu and Rakino Islands, The Noises Islands, Mt Moehau on the Coromandel Peninsula, Tiritiri Matangi Island, Little Barrier Island (Hauturu), Whangapraoa Peninsula and Kawau Island. Most of the painting was done about ten years ago, with the two inner circles and the thin line circles being added in 2016. The thin line circles were drawn with Molotow markers, the first time I have tried this relatively new art product.

Edge of Paradise Colouring Book features 34 original Gravity George line drawings for you to colour in. There is a variety of subject matter, from landscapes to Space Cows, and varying degrees of complexity. Colouring helps adults de-stress, and is fun for kids too! The back cover shows all of the designs coloured in.

It is available from lulu here:
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(Please allow up to three weeks for delivery. Lulu price is $US 16.95 plus postage.)

Or you can order it from Gravity George for $NZ 25 including postage within New Zealand.
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Edge of Paradise Colouring Book features 34 original Gravity George line drawings for you to colour in. There is a variety of subject matter, from landscapes to Space Cows, and varying degrees of complexity. Colouring helps adults de-stress, and is fun for kids too! The back cover shows all of the designs coloured in.

It is available from lulu here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/gravity-george/edge-of-paradise-colouring-book-deluxe-lie-flat-edition/paperback/product-22770138.html

(Please allow up to three weeks for delivery. Lulu price is $US 16.95 plus postage.)

Or you can order it from Gravity George for $NZ 25 including postage within New Zealand.
Email gravitygeorge@hotmail.com

2013 acrylic on canvas 500 x 500mm sold

2016 acrylic on canvas 405 x 505mm sold

2015 acrylic on canvas 760 x 1015mm $2500
During the New Year’s holiday period of 1993-94, myself and various friends held a week-long party at Cooks Beach, Coromandel Peninsula. Here we are on the lawn in front of the bach after getting our faces painted and playing silly games.

2016 acrylic on canvas 404 x 505mm sold

2006 acrylic on canvas 507 x 757mm sold
This is a close-up of the sea on a calm day in late afternoon. It is based on a photograph I took from the walkway between Mairangi Bay and Campbells Bay, Auckland.

2015 acrylic on canvas 760 x1015mm sold
It’s late afternoon on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour. This view is from on board a yacht sailing home to Auckland, looking ahead to another yacht. We have come from the Tamaki Strait and are sailing south of Rangitoto Island (part of which is visible on the right), heading west into Auckland (city buildings visible on the left).

2015 acrylic on canvas 506 x 756mm $550
The three main characters are (from left): Misty La Moore (dancer), Johnny Moondog (lead guitarist and rocker) and Labretta Suede (lead singer and rocker) on stage at SPLORE festival.
A couple of audience heads are in the foreground because this is a live rock and roll painting....

2016 acrylic on canvas 300 x 403mm $220

2015 acrylic on canvas, diptych 502 x 1004mm sold
This diptych shows two views from a kayaking trip across Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Island, New Zealand.

2016 acrylic on canvas 455 x 655mm $450
Incoming Tide – a close-up of the ripples of the sea as the tide comes in at Mairangi Bay, NZ.

2016 acrylic on canvas 250 x 510mm $200

2015 acrylic on canvas 505 x 755mm sold
This is Waipu Estuary in Northland, New Zealand, at high tide, seen from near the end of Johnson’s Point Road.

2017 liquid acrylic on canvas 254 x 508mm $220
This is a view of Mairangi Bay Beach, Auckland, NZ, with the recently installed shell sculpture in the foreground.

2013 acrylic on canvas 505 x 760mm $450
Looking east from Owhiro Bay, with Sinclair Head in the distance.

2015 acrylic on canvas 452 x 606mm sold
This is the late afternoon light on the ripples of the sea at Campbells Bay, Auckland, New Zealand.

2015 acrylic on canvas 506 x 756mm $850
Christchurch Wizard seen in May 1982 with a crowd of onlookers in Cathedral Square, showing the old United Services Hotel on the left and the Post Office on the right.
 

2015 acrylic on canvas 455 x 605mm sold
Sunlight reflecting off the sea – seen from the coastal walkway between Mairangi Bay and Campbells Bay, NZ.

2016 acrylic on canvas 455 x 655mm sold

2016 acrylic on canvas 300 x 403mm $220

2011 acrylic on canvas 405 x 510mm $450
A lumpy bed awoke me at dawn – I went outside and took some photos with my cellphone. When shooting into the rising sun, the low-res phone cam converted most of the image to black and white, and heavily pixcellated it. I like the effect and thought pixcellation could influence painting as a kind of modern techno-computer effect. The view is looking east up Bon Accord Harbour. The wharf shown is Lidgard Wharf, and I walked out onto the wharf and also took two photos looking back the other way, which were the inspiration behind another of my Kawau paintings, Kawau Island Just After Sunrise.

2011 acrylic on canvas 405 x 510mm sold

2013 acrylic on canvas 505 x 755mm sold
Mounts Tongariro (on the left) and Ngauruhoe (centre) are seen from across the bowling green in front of The Chateau Hotel at Whakapapa Village, in the Tongariro National Park, New Zealand.

2005 acrylic on canvas 204 x 610mm sold
A view of Golden Bay in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island. Iona Island features in the centre.

2013 acrylic on canvas 505 x 760mm sold
This is the view from Shakespeare Cliff lookout over Cooks Beach (in the distance) and Lonely Bay (in the foreground). A power boat is heading further out to sea. Cooks Beach and Lonely Bay are in Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand.

2013 acrylic on canvas 505 x 760mm $450
Cathedral Cove is a pair of beaches separated by a rock arch that you can walk through. It’s on the Coromandel Peninsula’s east coast in New Zealand. Seen here on a glorious hot day during the golden summer of 2013.
 

2015 acrylic on canvas 505 x 760mm $450
It’s a clear winter’s afternoon at Lake Rotoaira in the central North Island, where a lone fisherman tries his luck. In the background is Mount Tongariro.

2014 acrylic on canvas 505 x 760mm sold
Capturing the sunlight on the sea’s surface is an ongoing odyssey...

2013 acrylic on canvas 500 x 757mm $450
Raglan Harbour provided the inspiration for this painting...

2012 acrylic on canvas 610 x 455mm sold
Sometimes these rocks are exposed during low time. At other times they are buried under sand. They are between Mairangi Bay and Campbells Bay on Auckland's North Shore. Looking out to sea, we can see the island of Tiritiri Matangi visible on the horizon to the left.

2012 acrylic on canvas 455 x 610mm sold
Walking on the beach at low tide - there were shallow pools left on the sand by the receding sea. A light wind and a sunny day combined to produce well-lit ripples.

2012 acrylic on canvas 455 x 610mm sold
Walking along Mairangi Bay beach, crossing a shallow pond in the sand left by the receding tide. On the horizon are Whangaparaoa Peninsula, Little Barrier Island and Tiritiri Matangi Island.

2012 acrylic on canvas 460 x 610mm sold
The cottage is beside Smelting House Bay on Kawau Island, New Zealand.
It is very old and was associated with the old copper mining operations there. I had just slept the night inside after an evening in the nearby Kawau Island Yacht Club (the pub). Seen in the early morning with the dense kanuka forest behind it.

2012 acrylic on canvas 455 x 610mm sold
This view is standing inside the doorway of the Kawau Island Yacht Club, looking out onto the Club’s wharf. We are looking south across Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Island, New Zealand. The Yacht Club doubles as the island’s shop, pub, and boat refuelling station.

2012 acrylic on canvas 455 x 610mm sold
The bus is near Kovalam, Kerala, South India, in 1991. It is about to depart for Thiruvananthapuram City.

2013 acrylic on canvas 505 x 760mm sold
Matariki is a cluster of stars (The Pleiades). When it becomes visible over the horizon in the early morning (in the midwinter months) it signals the start of the Maori New Year - which is also called Matariki. The white blobs in the painting are the main stars in the cluster.

2013 acrylic on canvas 455 x 610mm $450
This is a painting of a night-time neon cityscape reflected on the surface of a small pond in a city park.

2015 acrylic on canvas 225 x 305mm $250
This is my first 3D painting - it works like the old ‘magic eye’ books. If you can cross your eyes so the two images are superimposed, it will appear in 3D. The scene is in Holloway Road, Aro Valley, Wellington.

2013 acrylic on canvas 305 x 610mm $220
Wenderholm is a regional park north of Auckland, New Zealand. It’s on a sandspit between the sea and the estuary of the Puhoi River. This view is from a picnic table halfway along the sandspit, looking west up the Puhoi River at low tide in the late afternoon.

2012 acrylic on canvas 303 x 1212mm $550
This painting shows Lidgard House and Lidgard Wharf at Smelting House Bay, Kawau Island, New Zealand. Lidgard House is shown twice. It is based on two photographs taken just after sunrise one October morning. At the same time, I pointed the camera the other way and took the photograph upon which I based another of my Kawau paintings, Dawn Pixcellation on Kawau Island. The photo for that painting was taken from a point on the beach in this painting, about a quarter of the way in from the right.

2007 acrylic on canvas 915 x 1220mm sold
This is a painting of some friends’ Northland holiday home, which is made from an old bus.

2007 acrylic on canvas 506 x 763mm sold
A red sailing dinghy is seen on Murrays Bay beach, North Shore, Auckland, on a sunny day.

2007 acrylic on canvas 355 x 455mm sold
I was lucky enough to be invited sailing on the yacht called Blast Furnace, owned by Juan, a friend of a friend. Anyway, it was a breezy day in late summer, I think it was April, 2007. We sailed from Westhaven, around North Head, and up the Rangitoto Channel – where I took the photo that led to this painting. My low angle may or may not have been influenced by one or two cans of on-board cerveza.