Artist Statement:
I am a Melbourne artist who shares my passion for the natural world through my expressive abstract paintings. Working with the medium of paint, I draw my inspiration from nature, the colours, motifs and patterns that excite my creative faculty. Painting on canvas and paper I work with organic contours, creating translucent veils of colour that run, pool and bloom, forms that suggest those present in nature’s cycle of growth and change.
I love painting and the process of creating; meditative contrasted with the tension of controlled spontaneity. I enjoy making evocative shapes and patterns, overlapping, manipulating translucent stains of paint that vacillate between the familiar and the unknown. I aim to provide an escape from the real world in my work, a space of contemplation where the ebb and flow of colour and form beckon a dialogue with the viewer. I like to create work that conjures up thoughts and feelings that have a calming influence on the mind of the viewer.
The Australian landscape is a primary source of inspiration for my practice travelling regularly to coastal, rural and desert locations. I explore diverse landscapes north and south of the equator that provide a rich visual experiences these include: Oceania, South Africa, North America, Scandinavia, and Europe – central, southern and north.
Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Whiskers on Roses, artspace, Kunstmatrix.com; Transitions, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2021 Then and Now, artspace, Kunstmatrix.comTransitions, artspaces, kunsmatrix.com
2020 Chasing Sunbeams, artspaces. Kunstmatrix.com
Near Whispers, artspaces. Kunstmatrix.com
Recent paintings, Colourspace, Victorian Governor Solicitor's Office, Melbourne
2019 Reflections, Kinross Arts Centre Toorak: Infinite Space, Frankston Arts Centre Frankston; Recent works Sinclair + May, Melbourne
2018 Feels like summer, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento; Dream weaver, Art at St.Francis, Melbourne Quiet Rhythms, Sinclair + May, Melbourne; Paperbark tales, Walker St Gallery & Arts Centre, City of Dandenong
2017 Sense of Place, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston; Sirenuse, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2016 Winters Song, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
2015 Soft Edges, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2014 Fluid Boundaries, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento; Here & Now, Cambridge Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Memory Traces, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2012 Phantom Fields, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza Vic
2011 Hint of spring, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza Vic
2010 Cycles, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Water’s Edge, Louey & Lane, Melbourne
2008 Leaving it open, Red Gallery, Melbourne; Heading South, Bayside Council Corporate Centre, Melbourne
2007 Slipstream, first site RMIT Union Gallery Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Open Art Prize, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Outback Regional Gallery, Waltzing Matilda Centre, Winton QLD, Art in Science, ACMD Art Prize, Finalist, St Vincent's Hospital Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Art in Science, ACMD Art Prize, Finalist, St Vincent's Hospital GalleryMelbourne
Open Art Prize, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2017 Spiritual Art Prize, Recipient, Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne
2016 ANL Maritime Art Awards, Finalist, The Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Melbourne:;Art in Science, ACMD Art Prize - Finalist, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne; Space, Recipient, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
2016 She, Finalist, Walker St Gallery & Arts Centre, Dandenong Vic
2014 Redland Art Awards Finalist, Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, QLD; Waverley Art Prize, Finalist, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW; She, Finalist, Walker St Gallery & Arts Centre, Dandenong, Vic
2014 Ficifolia Art Exhibition, Highly Commended, Drouin Community Chambers, Drouin VIC
2013 Outback Open Art Prize, Finalist Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW; She, Finalist, Walker St Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong Vic
2012 Redland Art Awards Finalist, Redland Art Gallery, QLD;St George Art Awards Finalist, Hurstville Museum and Gallery, NSW
2010 Outback Open Art Prize Finalist, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW;City of Albany Art Prize Finalist, Albany WA
