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
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
2020 INVINCIBLE, Tremain’s Mill Bathurst
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RESIDENCIES
2020 The Squatters Residency, The Foundations @ Portland
Twilight on the Fish.
Acrylic on canvas. 400 x 400mm
#bathurst
Moruya Heads. Gouache.
#moruya #shelleybeach #eurobodalla
Moruya Heads. Gouache.
#moruya #shelleybeach #eurobodalla
Gouache. Still life.
Still life. Gouache
Afternoon on the Clyde. She is complete and she is for sale. Nice Christmas present 😉 🤫 1200mm x 1200mm. DM for details.
This was a big exercise (for me) in black and white mark making at the recent Hill End drawing marathon. 135cm-ish w x 100cm h.
Ink, charcoal, pencil - basically anything I could throw at it on tough, rough paper. So many personal lessons in this piece. Liberating.
@hillendartscouncil @narf1771 🙏
Had the pleasure of working with Fran O’Neill @narf1771 at a four day Drawing Marathon over the weekend exploring Landscape into Abstraction at Hill End. A talented and lovely group of 12. It never ceases to amaze me how people can see and respond to the landscape so differently. Really inspiring and a joy to be immersed in the Hill End landscape once again. Bathurst and surrounds are putting on their autumn glad rags and it’s so beautiful atm. Thanks @hillendartscouncil for organising this and to all involved. V spesh. @danielechedel @inga.dal_paints @misspdew @heatherdunnartist @juliewilliamsartist @jim_flook @angelahayson #collage #charcoal #abstractlandscape #kissingpoint #hillend #markmaking
An all too quick south coast visit to @sculpturebermagui Beautiful pieces as always @stephenhogansculptures but I rather like having you and Aragunnu to myself for a day or two. ☺️🎨🤿 🐬 ⛺️
Middle Camp, Aragunnu
210mm w x 133mm h
100%acid free 300gsm cotton.
$400 unframed
#aragunnu #mimosarocksnationalpark @eurobodalla @eurobodallacouncil