A Bit About Me

I grew up in Melbourne, Australia and I found my love of art at school while seeking refuge amongst the coffee and heaters offered by the art department. I followed my interests at university where I completed a double degree in Visual  Arts/ International Relations at ANU.

For many years I lived and worked in Melbourne balancing a corporate job/ teaching and painting at the same time, However at the beginning of 2017 I moved to New Zealand where I have been making art full time.

A bit about my current work

My interest in painting clouds began as a form of escapism. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the pace of life these days and the process of painting clouds and flowers was a way for me to freeze a tiny moment in time of an ever evolving form. 

My paintings are studies of light and texture. The luminosity and light-fastness of oil paints allow me to experiment with compositions of varied depths. In my cloudscapes I have tried to create both a sense of depth by building up glazes of blues and greens, and also a sense of immediacy by forcing the foreground forward with layers of opaque white.

I see this work as an extension of my previous theme, though the subject matter is quite different.  For the last 9 years I have painted large-scale floral paintings that likewise experimented with texture and light. These floral works were a way of delving into an unnaturally inflated view of these beautiful small things.

I am interested in trying to capture moments of the natural world, to recreate shapes and textures subject to change, subjects that will naturally decay and devolve with time. I am one of those people who does tend to rush things, I talk quickly, I often don’t look where I’m going because I’m in a hurry, but in my studio I am able to be slow and deliberate. In a world where some days it feels everything moves too quickly: flowers wilt, phones ring, clouds disperse; an artwork has the ability to stand still.​​