My early education was in the 70’s at Prahran College of Advanced Education, in Melbourne. Coming from an artistic family, it was relatively easy for me to seriously consider painting as a vocation. Throughout my adulthood, juggling family and career, I continued to hone and develop ideas and concepts about the nature and relevance of painting in a post-object art world.

My early work in College was abstract – using the modern (at that time) concoctions of acrylic paint. The work I produced mainly consisted of large canvases employing a narrow range of colour, but tonally rich, with strong rhythms. They were largely influenced by the Abstract Expressionists of America – Pollock, DeKooning and Kline, as well as the early Pop artists- Rauchenberg and Rivers. As I matured, I seemed drawn back to the figurative in landscapes and people; a shift which caused a friend to kid me about being “ an abstractionist in disguise”

Inspired afresh by the work of Henri Matisse I reaffirmed retaining nature as my inspiration, and freely drew from visual stimuli. In the early 90’s I was challenged by my recent mentor and fellow artist Alan Tulloch to work with oil paints, which I had formerly avoided. It was love at the very first: finally I had the right means with which to model my recent acquaintance with the representational in painting.

I have exhibited variously in Ipswich, West End, Fortitude Valley, and the City, and am represented in private collections around Brisbane North Queensland, Melbourne, and New Zealand.