Self Portrait With The Coffin Of King Shoshenq II; Acrylic on linen, 20" x 20", March 2026 This is the first painting I have completed since my work of July last year, Study For The King’s House  . Completing that piece marked the beginning of a six month hiatus and my longest period of not painting since I recommenced in 2012. That painting centres upon a statue of a pharaoh from the nineteenth dynasty while the one I present you with now also reflects on a pharaoh, this tim

Commissioned by the GPT Shopping Centre Conglomerate for its Chirnside Park complex as a gift for the people of the Yarra Ranges, the sculpture was created by world renowned artists Gillie and Marc. I was recently granted an interview with the couple to feature in the book and this blog

20 25 has been one of my biggest reading years. I have upped the ante of my regular reading diet because of writing my own book: research has been crucial. Parallel to this, I have found it tremendously inspiring to read biographies of other pioneering types (other to David Syme and the era he emerges from, the subject of my tome) and especially artist biographies. I have included those that I found outstanding, and all are 2025(ish) releases that I bought as hardcover, paper

The digital poster I created for the event using imagery from previous paintings Aida: is this opera an expression of Egyptomania? Giuseppe Verdi's opera has been a favourite of opera goers since it was first performed in 1871. Set in the Old Kingdom and telling the story of an Ethiopian princess held captive by the Egyptians, things get dramatic when she falls in love with a soldier who is also fancied by a member of the royal family. The version of the opera being staged by

This post is not as much a review as it is a celebration of a recently published extraordinary book by US photographer and artist Ian James. My obvious obsession with all things Kemetic / Ancient Egyptian and Egyptomania is not lost on my readership or collectors of my paintings. So when someone else presents their own foray into a related subject, as is the case with the survey of pyramid complexes in the USA undertaken by Mr. James, it certainly got my attention [1] . In pr

Marlow Moss (1889 - 1958) photo: Steven Storm Marlow Moss (1889 - 1958) was a British artist and sculptor that art historians classify as a Constructivist. Born Marjorie Jewel Moss in Kilburn, London, in 1919 she changed her name to Marlow and adopted a masculine appearance. Around this time she moved to Cornwall and was a contemporary of the St. Ives Group. There are great photos of her unique style of dress taken by Man Ray’s apprentice Steven Storm. Storm was the son of w

It is with a heavy heart that I write of the passing of Baaba Heru, True Of Voice, Kemetic elder and priest, who I met when I visited New York City a decade ago. The master craftsman passed on 18th September, 2025. I do not know his age, and as he declined to reveal it in this article on him in the NY Times from 2012 I do not wish to hazard a guess here. I met him on a pilgrimage to the US investigating how the Ancient Egyptian gods manifested in our world today specifically

The Praying Mantis God Of Ancient Egypt in pharaonic headgear and beard A 5 years old documentary resurfaces I produced this documentary in 2020 amidst lockdowns and the devastation that surrounded it, including the end of a long career in the fitness industry [1] .  (If you want to skip this post and get straight to the film, it is at the bottom of this post). Very rare praying mantis hieroglyph found as part of a text (discussed in the documentary) in the tomb of King Seti

My talk A Monumental Egyptian Tomb In Melbourne ran for three days as part of this acclaimed program on July 25, 26 and 27, 2025 Stories Of the City The original presentation of my r esearch on the Syme monument was a 15 minute talk included in the program of events for my exhibition Adventures In Zoomorphic Idolatry in 2023. I had no notion then that almost two years to the day I would be running a 45 minute talk complete with slides and a short film that I produced at the c

The artist completing the 2021 painting I Had Not Seen Truth Before The Images Of The Gods Were Born Thanks to the wonderful article in The Age newspaper last month, my name was under the spotlight. I have long been asked about my strange sounding and (when spelled in hieroglyphs) looking name. Here for the first time is what the name means, why I use it, and how it came to be. Name Change Changing one’s name to alter one’s impact is nothing new. Marilyn Monroe was born Nor

Study for The King's House, Mixed media (acrylic and balsa wood) on linen, 36" x 48", July 2025 My study for a glimpse into the Duat based on a sacred text is my latest work, completed in the early days of July. It features a saturated matt flat Sahara yellow background and is punctuated with balsa wood accents – an effect I began working with earlier this year in my Marlow Moss paintings. The contrast between the matt and gloss components of the piece allows for a floating e

In my last blog post , I mentioned I had been given a vacate notice for the property I live in, later reversed. In the 9 days that the notice was active, I begun the long and intense process of preparing to move house. It was during this time I opened boxes that had been in storage for a decade, the purpose being to cull my belongings so that I did not have so much to move with me. I discovered boxes full of long forgotten photographs, and it was astonishing to relive the pow

Guests at the Garden Party For 5 hours on Sunday April 13th my home of 10 years became a gallery of 54 paintings (plus an installation) of my work over the last decade. The earliest work was from 2012 and the latest included many from the last few months. Some 25 or so people attended, all personally invited. It was a full moon in Libra that day. Was the timing right? I’d say so. But there were other factors in play too.   Works in the Chamber Of Dreams The making of a home s

It is odd that this post, dated April 2025 welcomes readers to a blog that for all intents and purposes began in 2023, so allow me to explain. My original Blogger  blog ran from 2012 until I disabled it around 2021 [1] . I enabled the blog function of my website [2] to use exclusively as a feature for my 2023 exhibition Adventures In Zoomorphic Idolatry, and it is this version of my blog that readers are able to access today. The earliest post (February 2023) is labelled as

I am presenting the talk A Monumental Egyptian Tomb In Melbourne to my first audiences outside of those connected to my paintings [1] this year. The talk is a creative project seven years in the making, and I find it profound that the first venue to stage it is an organisation that has played a significant part in the foundations of my spiritual search and studies: the Theosophical Society. The Adelaide Theosophical Society in King William Street, c1957; Cosmic Pages was to

VHS Cassettes unearthed at my family home In 2021, being forced to remain in South Australia whilst Victoria (where I live) was undergoing brutal COVID lockdowns, I excavated a box left at my parents house from one of my many moves interstate and overseas. I came across two VHS cassettes that I had forgotten about. Both pertained to a period earlier in my life that my later artistic career superseded: the period when I was pursuing bodybuilding and competing. On further inves

Nehebukau And The Ocean Of Reassurance Again Mixed media (acrylic, modelling paste) on canvas 36” x 48” June 2024   This latest painting is a revival and merging of two earlier paintings. It is inspired by one of these being granted the honour of being included in Dr. Tamara Siuda’s Complete Encyclopedia Of Egyptian Deities . The encyclopedia was released in April to much acclaim, and topped the best seller list in its category on pre-orders alone. Video of receiving the box

The artist and author looks on at a statue of King Seti II, Dynasty 19, Pharaoh exhibition at NGV photo by Paul Compton Australia has had no less than 3 international exhibitions grace its shores over the past 8 months. Ramses and The Gold Of The Pharaohs  in Sydney finished only weeks before Pharaoh  opened in Melbourne last week; in the meantime the Canberra show Discovering Ancient Egypt   will continue until just before Pharaoh closes in October. As an artist whose centr

Acrylic on linen 72” x 36” February 2024 My interest in Billilla Mansion came about from researching the works of architect Walter Richmond Butler (1864 – 1949). I have lived in Bayside for 9 years and as my research intensified, I became aware that I live in the thick of some of the most illustrious colonial-era architecture that suburban Melbourne has to offer.   Original concept: a film for Enchantment The original idea for my painting began as a 3-minute black and white s

The Sorrows Of Setken Acrylic on canvas 48" x 72" January 2024 Mauve symphony I was delighted to discover recently that an Australian artist right here in Melbourne has also pursued a mauve palette in her distinguished career. Helen Maudsley  came to my attention in the last days of completion of The Sorrows Of Setken as part of an exhibition at Boroondara Town Hall gallery late last year. My purple immersion began in 2019 when I began working on Kemetery and was revived wit