My early education was in the 70’s at Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne. Coming from an artistic family, it was relatively easy for me to seriously consider painting as a vocation.

Most of my student work was abstract, using the relatively new (at that time) concoctions of acrylic paint. The work I produced mainly consisted of large canvases employing a narrow range of colour; tonally rich, with use of dynamic rhythms. At that time my main influences included a number of  American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock, DeKooning and Kline, as well as the early Pop artists Rauchenberg and Rivers.

As I matured, I seemed drawn back to the figurative - 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 found myself returning to nature as my source material, finding  inspiration in many different visual stimuli such as clouds, landscapes and the human form.

In the early 90’s I was challenged by my then mentor and fellow artist Alan Tulloch to work with oil paints, which I had previously avoided. It was love at the very first: I finally felt I had the right means with which to model my recent acquaintance with the representational in painting.

Since those early days, when I often had to juggle family, career and art, I have frequently found myself challenged about the nature and relevance of painting in a world of 'post-object' art.

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