Art is a journey.

As an artist the journey is often complex, filled with times of doubt, insecurities, euphoria or accomplishment. Beauty in art comes from the unpredictability of an outcome, such as natural dyeing or the impulsive urge to just paint. These works have developed over time. A time of experimentation trial and error, an exploration of colour, medium, surface and impact. Working through different ideas and bringing each piece to fruition, has been an exercise with purpose and resolution. All art has a beginning, mine began with the need to escape the everyday by imitation and colour. We are often driven towards a piece of artwork through an emotional connection, whether it is the colours that attracts us or the image itself. Art can resonate through us, to the point where it can have an emotional impact, something no other medium can achieve.

MIXED MEDIA

  • Broken Light

    2017
    400 x 500 mm
    Triptych, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas.

  • Red Spheres

    2019
    210 x 297 mm
    Pen and ink on paper

  • You Died

    2019

    Hand made paper roses, dried red roses, and various mediums on canvas. (part of body of work 3rd year proposal, Love and the Conversation)

  • I Loved You Until Death

    2019

    900 x 1200 mm

    Handmade paper, paper, dried roses, fishing wire, ash, plastic stretched canvas. Overall height with ash, 1700mm. (final body of work, fine art project, Curtin University 3rd year BA) Love and the Conversation, highly commended)

OIL

  • Red Door with Blue Chair

    2005
    229 x 305 mm
    Oil on Board

  • Lily

    1999
    255 x 300 mm
    Oil on canvas

  • Flinders Ranges

    You Died

    2004
    440 x 550mm
    Oil on canvas. Third prize Art & Craft show, East Oakleigh.

  • Spirit of the Stallion

    2004
    610 x 920 mm
    Oil on canvas (sold)

  • Pears

    2017

    940 x 380 mm

    Oil on canvas

TEXTILES

  • Dancing Gypsy

    2004
    430 x 430 mm
    Fabric, stitch mounted with frame

  • Russet Scarf

    2019
    1800 x 320 mm
    Silk wool 50/50 - organic hand dyed with eucalyptus leaves

  • Flinders Ranges

    Golden Yellow

    2019
    1800 x 320 mm
    Silk wool 50/50 scarf - Organic hand dyed, turmeric and eucalyptus leaves

  • Black Tracks

    2019
    1800 x 320 mm
    Silk wool 50/50 scarf - Organic hand dyed using found leaves, iron rods and bark

WATERCOLOUR

  • Two Seasons

    1997
    297 x 420 mm
    Watercolour on 300gsm paper.

  • Grace

    2010
    280 x 380 mm. Watercolour. 300gsm watercolour paper. (framed)

  • Garden

    2015
    240 x 190 mm
    Watercolour study on 300 gsm watercolour paper.

  • Capsicum

    2015
    240 x 190 mm
    Watercolour and ink. 300gsm watercolour paper

  • Dancing Dragonflies

    2005
    280mm x 380mm
    Watercolour and ink. 300 gsm watercolour paper. (sold)

  • Fallen

    2014
    297 x 420mm
    Watercolour, ink, salt. 300gsm watercolour paper

  • Roses

    1997
    210 x 297mm
    Watercolour study. 300gsm watercolour paper

  • Zebra plant

    2020
    210 x 297 mm
    Watercolour on 300gsm paper