I lived my life creating and learning about arts and Crafts from all directions. Different cultures from Southeast Asia and Indigenous art from NZ and Australia also inform my art and style.
I am inspired by natural elements, both flora, and fauna, and more recently by how humans influence the environment. My voice is developing but appreciating the beauty that we are surrounded by everywhere on this earth is the foundation for everything I do.
Using repurposed or recycled products also underpins my daily practices, choosing to repaint over a bad painting or recycle someone else's work that has been disposed of, means I don't always start with a brand new canvas or board.
I am continuously learning and testing myself with new techniques and upskilling whenever I find a practice that I haven't used before. So my work is always changing. Sometimes for the better,
and sometimes I learn a lesson that doesn't work for my own applications.
I love finishing with oils and currently creating mixed media using acrylics underpaintings and incorporating collage, especilly from natural elements like leaves and flowers. This connects the work with the environment it represents.
In as much as I have had a quite varied and interesting working life, I believe that you are who you are TODAY not who you once were. At my now mature age, of 68, I am choosing to focus on the things that have always been my happy place but that were always relegated to the hobby place in my life. I have now determined to produce a body of work suitable for exhibition. In the meantime, I am making limited edition Prints on art paper and canvas giclee.