About me

I was born and live in Australia in a beautiful area known as Sydney’s northern beaches which is the influence for my mixed media contemporary paintings.

In my work I represent the natural and the man-made of the waterways: weatherworn pebbles & stones from the waters edge or depths and the aged built structures within that environment – piers, jetties, boardwalks, swimming enclosures. Planks of wood with water flowing beneath, the surge of the ocean, organic shapes and the patterns of sand & sea – I’m drawn to the aged beauty that time wears on these surfaces and that these things are perpetual, timeless and certain.

My approach is spontaneous, energetic & experimental producing work which is for the viewer at times powerful or at other times, calming.

I use a variety of material including shellac, bitumen, oil stick, acrylic paint and oil mediums and time seems to stand still when I’m immersed producing abstract & semi realistic works. My palette can vary but typically are the blues and greens of the sea or earthy tones. Currently I am particularly interested in assemblage … employing found objects in my works to depict the passing of time & inevitable change symbolized by rusty metal and worn pages from discarded texts.

Because of my love of word play & in contrast to my uncontrived approach to painting, I name my pieces in a very constrained “dictionary entry” style.

I have exhibited extensively in Sydney and my works have found homes Australia-wide and abroad.