Wattle 2

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Thank you for taking the time to look through my artwork. For the last couple of years my focus has been on the theme of journey and our Australian landscape. Whether this is from our road trips across Australia or the idea of the transformation of person throughout their life, each theme appeals to me. Our beautiful country Australia is a big influence on my work. As Dorothea Mackellar says in her infamous poem,

'I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

I have been painting for over 20 years and have enjoyed many different mediums but I am particularly drawn to acrylic and oil painting . I also enjoy watercolour for smaller illustrations. After some early certificate level training after high school, I spent a year in West Africa teaching kids art and was inspired to further my studies. I gained a BA Arts (painting) and graduated in March 2005. I am a Christian and a Pastor's wife and love to teach art to both adults and children.

My influences include the Australian Impressionists, especially Arthur Streeton and the work of Turner but I am particularly inspired by portrait artists including Evert Ploeg and Nora Heyson. I am strongly influenced by our road trip travels as a family across Australia and the theme of the road or pathway is recurring across my work.

My art journey continues as I explore portrait themes and the use of symbols found in nature alongside maps and the figure. I am particularly taken with seedpods and their symbol of life and renewal.