Since graduating from Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, my art practice has developed through a variety of mediums; jewellery and object design, sculpture, installation art and drawing, however now I am mostly working with painting. I relocated from Sydney to the Blue Mountains over twenty years ago and have been absorbed by my natural surroundings ever since.
My painting practice has as its subjects mainly landscape, but also interiors. In both areas I work to capture the emotion that the subject creates in me, and to that end I am not so interested in capturing the accuracy of the subject matter. There is in my work, an incongruity between trying to achieve an emotive looseness, and a focus on the minutia of the bush, or the details of the interior, those small things that hold me momentarily as all else stands still. This preoccupation with detail is a remnant from past training in jewellery and object design which is a part of me I don’t wish to lose, and yet I struggle toward a desire for abstraction.