Since childhood, drawing has always been a method for expressing those things there are no words for.. I was 4 when my Mother fell into a 9-month coma from which she would never awaken; I would make pictures for her hospital room wall. As I grew, I continued to draw and paint in response to whatever was occurring, in a sense mapping the psychological landscape I traversed.
I remain attracted to abstraction for the non-literal space it allows, and employ colour as a vehicle to convey emotion. Primal, gestural mark-making is usually the starting point; balanced composition of shape and form are considered thereafter so as to resolve the finished piece, without robbing it of raw energy.
I exhibited successfully in England and Amsterdam before immigrating to Australia where I now reside, and create continually, inspired by the natural beauty of the northern rivers, my little girl, and the ephemeral coast.