About me

I have practised art in many areas including painting, ceramics and  illustrations.

I grew up Hobart in Tasmania (Lutruwita). In the last few years I have walked through many of the island’s forests which prompted a  focus on trees. I also began to notice neglected suburban trees in the Western suburbs of Melbourne where I now live, and  have drawn inspiration from them.

In my recent paintings I have honoured tall trees using the stylised, intertwined limbs and techniques of late Renaissance and Baroque eras, usually associated with church decoration. I enjoy using and, occasionally, distorting their use of drama, light and dark (known as chiaroscuro), perspective and glazing to build up colour. I am suggesting that the sublime as well as life, death and regeneration can be experienced in the forest and, if you look up, along suburban roadsides.

C.V.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

 1994-1996 Bachelor of Arts, (Fine Art), RMIT Australia.

1990 Bachelor of Arts, The University of Melbourne.

EXHIBITIONS

2022: Exhibtion: Gallery 11

2021: Finalist Glover Prize

2021: Participant in Negative Capability group show. 

2016,  2017 and 2021: Finalist St Kevin’s Art Show, Victoria.

2016 and 2019: Art in the Gardens, Williamstown.

2006 and 2007: Art in Public Spaces, Williamstown, Victoria

PUBLICATIONS:

Illustrations for the Good wood and paper guide. A Friends of the Earth publication.