I'm a Port Macquarie based artist . I've been painting all my life, it is my passion. I use watercolour and gouache. I like to challenge nature; to distort and stylize what I see, there is so much natural beauty surrounding us, I feel like I have to rival nature, pushing it to the limit. Size and perspective don't interest me, colour and detail does. The structure of plants, insects, birds and fish is a key factor in my work, the patterns that naturally occur are amazing, I try to replicate these lines and shapes. Symbolism is a key factor in my work, the relation to certain flowers to the mood I am trying to portray. Black is the key neutral used in all my paintings, it glues the painting together, also creating a 3D effect, popping the key players in the final work. I've been asked a number of times why circles are always in my work, and why I paint so many of them, I honestly have no answer for that, it's just what I do.
