Thank you for taking the time to look through my artwork. I have loved painting and printmaking since I was a teen and come from a very creative family. I love to experiment with mediums and styles but am always drawn to bright colour. I enjoy the Australian landscape and paint more expressionistically within that subject but I also love straight lines and buildings in which I usually paint in watercolour or print using linocut.
I have been painting for over 30 years and have enjoyed many different mediums but I am particularly drawn to linocut 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.