I am an Australian born painter based in Brisbane. My artworks are held in private collections both in Australia and internationally. I am foremost a painter, yet also incorporate print and mixed medium into my work, depending on the purpose of story I wish to tell. I am enrolled in the Master of Visual Arts at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University with expected completion at the end of 2026. A self-proclaimed ‘painting junkie’, each composition is an opportunity to explore identity and place. I have spent the last twenty years producing large format vertical works on a range of substrates including linen, canvas, Perspex and Lexcen. I embrace an intuitive approach with Visual Arts and am motivated by what speaks to me at the time.
Originally a co-artist of Cherry Contemporary Art, I have worked solo since 2015. My current work explores and captures whimsical and poignant moments in time that help me to navigate a way forward from here. Themes within compositions may move between natural print installations painted in reverse on Perspex, to luscious paintings of flowers in oils on linen. I am an avid admirer of American born modernist painter Georgia O’Keefe and her sensuous oil paintings that teetered between realism and abstraction, often with unapologetic magnified introspection.
I use symbolism in each composition to evoke a sense of story and anticipate leaving the viewer with space to relate my work to their consciousness - a composition leans into surreal, modern or abstraction depending on the many serendipitous art making processes that occur at the time. In the past I have treasured knowing every owner of each of my works and have loved building connection and beauty into homely spaces.