Dollhouse Ghosts

Dollhouse is a metaphor for old memories and contained in that is ghosts of the past.

A bolt of lightning strikes your memory files.

The house is full of emotions, memories, thoughts, outdated ideas and the toys including the dolls hold emotional disconnection from the present day. The wall paper is peeling and the place is forgotten, abandoned. The little toy vdub car is crying, like we remember crying as kids (or as adults) when we felt alone and lost. There has been disconnect in the world for the last couple of decades but the spiritual side has been changing that in recent times. People are awakening to everything around them, memories are coming back from their childhoods and other pasts, all to heal the soul. The material plane, while materialistic stuff isn't as important as the emotional side of things and experiences we have in life, the materialistic stuff brings some form of connection to each other as humans. It is like we are souls having a human experience and the dollhouse and its toys are reminders of what we have had as humans growing up and the experiences we have gone through, hardships and good times, success and failure. Are we manifesting what we want.

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I'm a Deaf artist, born in and living back in Melbourne after a number of years in Adelaide, South Australia. I have been practicing my arts for 18 years and exhibiting for the last decade and most recently as an international artist in Europe.

I work with watercolour, ink, gouache and mixed media to communicate my stories, transcribing perceptions of the world today and way back many thousands of years ago. Some of my works also focus on preserving history of places around local areas and afar, often on request of others and those works convey in my style of the places I paint. Sometimes, for a lighthearted comment, I paint a volkswagen adventure or doggy adventure to entertain and bring a smile to people's faces.

My studio is open for visits, so contact me to organise a studio visit. My studio is located 2 hours outside of Melbourne, but I am able to have studio visits in the city during the week in business hours between 10 am and 5 pm, and I require at least 24 hours notice on city visits.

I am starting to move towards working with acrylic and oils on abstract and semi-abstracts as well as imagery with evolved ideas and 2019 will bring new works that sees evolution in my works.