I commenced my art career as a potter in the 1990's, largely self-taught with the help of many books. My pottery is in public and private collections in Japan, China, the USA, Europe and the UK. I enjoyed it enormously but developing arthritis in my hands meant that I had to choose another art form. Since then, I have printed my own fabric for textile art, tried spinning and weaving, and made books.
My two passions now are painting and making sculptures from recycled wood and metal. I paint in acrylic and mixed media, sometimes with a bit of collage, and my style is always veering towards the abstract. I like to paint feelings rather than photo realism. (My husband and sons are excellent photographers so I let them handle that side of things.) My purpose in making my sculptures is to give people a touch of life's absurdity; the pieces I have kept that are scattered around our house make me smile whenever I see them. They are not humorous, they are absurd little creatures, bringing with them the history of whatever they were part of in an earlier life. I find their making an absolute joy. I lay out the pieces and they just seem to assemble themselves.
For over forty years, I have lived on acres on a low ridge overlooking the Nepean floodplain across to the Blue Mountains. Although we have experienced fires and floods, we love our rural home, shared with many birds, reptiles and mammals. The natural world surrounds us and that is our joy.