Halcyon Days Oil Painting on Canvas.

This is part of a series Log rollers, prints of log rollers are available as a woodblock print. Other works of similar nature are Logrollers. Perhaps part of the fascination with log rollers and water can be attributed to the fact that Collis used to play by the river as a teenager whilst at Boarding school, and also in young adult hood purchased shared land on Rangihau rd next to the Waiwawa river Coroglen

Red Tree Painting titled: Fire tree

Flame Tree or Fire Tree Nicknamed the Red Tree painting. It was based on a real life setting between Coroglen and Whitianga close to where the artist resided on the coromandel peninsula New Zealand.

This work was part of a group of works created in the year 2011 . The work was also exhibited in Madrid as part of this 2011 group and reviewed by Pablo Llorca .

The Process involved:

A lot of experimentation has been carried out in Angus Collis’s work. Brightly coloured grounds are used to punch out colours. Various marks are used from brush marks in the corrugated iron roof. Material has been printed onto then that in turn has been printed onto the paper in the foreground fence. The grass pattern was created with a scrunched up rag. The trees and sky were the only parts painted with a paint brush. The way that marks are made is something of a constant invention within Collis’s work.