About
Having worked in the creative industries all my life – in television and radio production, journalism, copywriting and graphic design – I’m now following my first love, painting.
It has always been a part of my life but now it’s my full time practice.
I’ve studied with some of Australia’s most respected art educators and painters at the National Art School in Sydney, attended workshops throughout New South Wales and camel trekked with paints in hand in the South Australian desert.
Working in the landscape is my natural setting.
For me, the sweet spot lies in that semi abstract realm where I break down a landscape into simplified shapes and forms. I’m not seeking reality, just a glimpse of it, the sort of glimpse that hovers on the edge of memory, that makes you feel a place rather than know it intimately.
I’m learning that building a practice takes time, that lousy days can often be the most fruitful, and that the process takes patience and a high degree of courage. But at the end of the day, I’m finding myself going to bed early because I want tomorrow to come quicker. I want to be in the studio and that’s a really exciting place to be in at this point in my life.
I’m still doing some graphic design and video work but with smaller clients who are as interested as I am in the joyous process of creativity.
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Finalist, Calleen Art Prize, Cowra
2024 Finalist, 9×5 Landscape Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School
2022 ‘Holding Stillness’ Rosby Gallery, Mudgee
2021 Here, Now. Orange Regional Gallery
2020 Finalist, Fishers Ghost Art Award
2018 Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize
2018 Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery
2018 Here, Now. Orange Regional Gallery
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upcoming at Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Paddington
2020 INVINCIBLE, Tremain’s Mill Bathurst
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AWARDS
2024 Gulgong Art Prize
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RESIDENCIES
2023 The Squatters Residency, The Foundations @ Portland
2020 The Squatters Residency, The Foundations @ Portland
Favourite place in the world. #bittangabeebay
Detail from the studio. Gemalla.
It’s a funny old world the art world but we wouldn’t have it any other way.
@sculpturesinthegarden 🙏
@stephenhogansculptures x
Congratulations Hogey! @stephenhogansculptures
A really beautiful work that’s been awarded the Buchanan Mudgee Hospital Small Sculpture Prize at @sculpturesinthegarden
Well done you xx
I’m going a little bit off piste here but I can’t tell you how much I’ve been enjoying this podcast looking at the run up to the US election.
Anthony Scaramuchi “The Mooch” is the real surprise package for me. Intelligent, incredibly well read (!), self effacing and funny. Genuinely scarred (and embarrassed) by his experience of working with Trump and despite him openly backing Kamala Harris, he and English journalist Katty Kay present a really balanced picture of what’s at play.
They’ve also done a fascinating four part series on How Trump Won the White House in 2016.
It’s rare that I really look forward to forthcoming episodes of a podcast but I do with this one.
I’d be interested to know whether anyone else is enjoying it too.
The latest episode is a cracker.
The Bay.
I’ve just made a second visit to Peter Godwin’s extraordinary survey show at @orangeregionalgallery.
Spent a number of hours looking closely at his unique gestural approach. Attached some details. So luscious.
Ever since I saw his Paris Apartment series at @defiancegallery in 2017 I’ve loved his work.
I may yet return a third time 😍
I’ve been experimenting with oils today. It’s been a strange week letting go of all things council. But so good to have uninterrupted time in the studio. Step by step…