Chilli Rose, nearly five metres across, stapled flat to the studio wall. That is how I work at this size, so the surface stays true while I paint.

The photographs with me in them are there for scale. She is taller than I am.

A journey with rescued souls. This painting tells the story of three brave horses who found their way home.

The last photograph is Kinema's eye, close up. I always begin there, and everything else in the painting follows from what I find in it.

Private commission for Steve Grant, Silverdale Farm

Skirt The Law won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast in January 2023, still unbeaten, for trainer Tony Gollan. A bay mare by Better Than Ready out of Outlaw Kate, she retired in 2025 having won more than $1.3 million.

She is owned by a syndicate of eighteen, and every one of them is a woman. I have been a Magic Millions ambassador for close to a decade, so the winner of their Classic, owned by women and painted by a woman, is about as good as a commission gets.

The brand on her shoulder ends in a nought, for 2020, the year she was born. I paint the brands in because they are part of the horse.

Private commission

Five metres of linen, three horses, and a commission that travelled to Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. The horses are painted in powerful motion, so the piece carries the energy of the animal rather than the stillness of a portrait.

“We wanted something different and the first of its kind, and I think we have nailed that.” The media wall for the 2024 Pacific Fair Magic Millions Polo & Showjumping.

“It has been an amazing journey. I cannot thank Katie and Gerry enough; they always have an amazing vision.”

Ed ridden by Sam Overton. Photographed by @flash_pony_photo with @lukemarsdenphoto. @magicmillionspolo

Leo is a Quarter Horse paint that I rescued, and he holds a special place in my heart. He has brought so much joy into my life, and I wanted to capture his essence in a portrait I will keep for a lifetime. Painting him let me sit with him properly and put his spirit on the linen. It is a reminder of the bond we share.

Four-time Champion Sire of Australia and four-time Champion Sire of two-year-olds. Sire of twelve champions and twelve stakes-siring sons.

I met him at Arrowfield before I painted him, and I am glad I did. Snitzel died on the eleventh of June 2025, at twenty-two, having stood at Arrowfield since 2006. He left one hundred and sixty stakes winners behind him.

An older horse who captured my heart and moved me to paint him. This one is a tribute to Sam and his beautiful soul, to his personality and the wisdom that comes with his years.

Private commission

Filmed for 60 Minutes.

Photographed by @flash_pony_photo

A privilege to visit @nachofigueras and @delfinablaquier's polo facilities in Argentina and photograph the horses there. The colour palette that came out of that trip is mesmerising, and I became obsessed with every last detail of it. Delfina came directly from those grounds.

I came home blown away by the patterns and textures of the Argentinian halter. The intricacy and the designs are genuinely one of a kind, and I have been working them into my own paintings ever since.

Private commission for Rosemont Stud

Not A Single Doubt started ten times and won four, including the Canonbury Stakes and the Zeditave Stakes. It was at stud that he became a giant of Australian racing.

He stood at Arrowfield from 2005 at $13,750 and retired in 2020 at $110,000. He sired more than seventy stakes winners and fifteen Group One winners. He died in 2022, at twenty.

He was a son of Redoute's Choice, out of Singles Bar. Father and son both stood at Arrowfield, and I have now painted them both.

Private commission

A retired Australian-bred thoroughbred who won four Group 1 races, most notably the Manikato Stakes on two occasions.

Private commission

Painted at the request of a collector as my interpretation of Still Water.

Private commission. Photographed by @flash_pony_photo

Photographed by @flash_pony_photo

Photographed by @flash_pony_photo

An overwhelming visit to the National Gallery in London. Two years earlier the international art critic Damian Smith had drawn a line between my work and George Stubbs, referencing his most famous painting, Whistlejacket. I did not know George or his work at the time. Standing in front of it, I felt an emotional connection to the picture, and I could see the thing we share: a wish to show the horse alone, and nothing else.

George Stubbs (1724–1806), Whistlejacket, about 1762. Stubbs painted the second Marquess of Rockingham's prize racehorse full-size and rearing, without a rider and against a blank ground, so that nothing competes with the animal.

An honour to be on the cover of @equestrienne_magazine. Thank you Sam, it is beautifully written.

This is the Louvre Abu Dhabi. I was in the country to deliver Desert Spirits to Ras Al Khaimah, and while we were there we travelled through Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah and saw as much of it as we could.

Standing outside a building made to hold art, on the trip where I installed a painting of my own, is not a day I will forget.