My interest for the arts, especially painting started at Loreto Normanhurst. I was greatly encouraged to follow this passion by jointly attending in 1988 and 1989, a summer school of painting at the City Art Institute in Paddington and choosing 3 unit art as a higher school certificate subject. In 1992 I completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University with painting being my major.

My rural background life and my past have a great influence on the way I work, paint and create. I love working with the landscape, and through my art I try to understand its scope. I take on different views of the landscape, each image being a representation of my gut feelings and instincts about where I live. These works to me convey an inner feeling of my connection to the land- the tone, colour and texture representing dust, life and reproduction.

Why wind and water? The lack of H2O over the past five or so years, and the effect that it has had on everyone’s life in the country, enforces a powerful message through these calm and silently strong images.

Water/Adams ale, aqua, rainwater, drinking water, tap water, ground water, bore water, floodwater, gravitational water, melt, mickery, soak, slops, swill, watertable.

I love to paint, but the other mediums I use are mixed and intertwine like the landscapes. All these images are meant to have a calming effect on the eye and to me this is the key to the works…..water of constitution, water of crystallisation, water of hydration.