Jasmin

My granddaughter, Jasmin, visited me on her 16th birthday. I was so taken by her beauty and her innocence, holding her mobile phone as a life line, not like when I was her age. I asked her if she would mind if i could paint her portrait just how she was looking at me here. I said, 'when you are my age, Jasmin, you will realise why I painted you in this landscape in front of my home. It is so important for you to realise my awareness of this changing environment as I have been living here in Wilmot, 15 years . My art work is about the changing landscape in my life time, telling the story of change, global warming and the loss of our natural landscape in my life time. My feeling for the land has been with me all my life and I am aware of the destruction of our Earth and all it's living creatures. Jasmin is apart of this growing and extreme environment and I wanted to capture her innocence.

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I am a multidisciplinary person and use any materials that may help me express my work. I have worked with oil paints on canvas‚ rainforest timbers‚ glass‚ photography‚ cast metals‚ and newspaper. My ideas reflect the environment around me.
Throughout my life my creations have reflected my love of life and nature.‘I have worked continuously over the last eight years in my home studio at T.A.F.E. and the Tasmanian university‚ developing and making interesting and challenging forms’.
‘The work I am developing at university (M.F.A.D.) challenges me to use recycled float glass and fusing‚ slumping and moulding it in a way to express the beauty and loss of our native forests of Tasmania’.