I have been an artist since I was about 8 years old copying the cartoons on morning television. Obviously I have moved on from that, though sometimes I still look fondly at the modern cartoons. I initially fell into pencil as my medium of choice as it gave me the detail that I loved. I would spend hours putting together pieces filling from one edge of the paper to the other. Art was then my hobby, and as much as I loved it, life got in the way.
I moved onto coloured pencils as I found that I could create detail with the impact of colour. Fabre Castello, Polychromos were fantastic allowing me to blend. I had tried paint several times and always felt let down, more so by my ability than the medium of course. My other life certainly didn’t help my time management. In 2021, we all know how that year went, I began a more experimental journey with acrylic on canvas. Suddenly I was in love with this. Why had I spent so many years ignoring this medium. Maybe the time was just not right, with age comes patience
I love the Australian bush and as such it makes its way into my art pieces. They are places I have been, explored and thoroughly enjoyed and subsequently when I put them down onto canvas that experience becomes part of the process ingrained in each brush stroke.