I was born in 1962 in Perth, Western Australia and I now reside in Tasmania
Encouraged by my parents, especially my father to express myself in drawing and painting as a child, my first sales were to the artist Robert Juniper at the age of eight for Miss Australia Quest fundraising (Cerebral Palsy Association)
I completed Art at Tertiary Entrance Admissions level in 1979.
However, it was during a walking holiday in England in 1985, that I was inspired to paint seriously and I have been self-educated since then.
I first exhibited in 1986 , at the West Australian Newspapers Exhibition during the Festival of Perth.
Group Exhibition Ninebyfive Gallery Fremantle WA November 2008.
First Solo Exhibition at Monart Studio & Gallery, Dalkeith WA 4 September 11 to 25 September 2011.
Group exhibition Jeffrey Leder Gallery New York January 2012.
Community Exhibitions I have participated in include;
Stirling City Council Art Awards 1992 to 2006.
City of Melville Art Awards 1993 to 2012.
York Art Awards 2004 to 2010 .
Perth Royal Show 2009 & 2010.
Cossack Art Awards 2006 to 2014.
City of Canning Art Awards 2008 & 2009.
Belmont City Council Art Awards 2007 to 2009.
Town of Vincent Art Awards 2005 to 2008.
Represented by Agora Gallery in New York, USA in 2012/2013
Linton & Kay Mandoon Estate Gallery July to September 2018 (all of the eight exhibited sold)
Awards:
First Prize City of Stirling Art Awards 1992 for Oil painting
Highly Commended x 2 York Art Awards 2005
Highly Commended Cossack Art Awards 2009
with the painting “Walyunga”