About

Tamborine Mountain Wangerriburra country is my place of residence and creative pursuits. I paint highly colourised abstract artworks and am fascinated by colour contrasts. My works are driven by understanding the relationships between colours and their ability to make associations with our feeling states, and these paintings are expressions of the subconscious.

The New York School of mid century artists has been a major influence, as has the layering work found in the abstract expressionisms of German artist Gerhard Richter. Contemporary abstractionists are also a source of inspiration.

After graduating in 1975 with a Diploma of Art Teaching from Kelvin Grove College (QUT), majoring in painting and drawing, I taught for 7 years in Queensland high schools, prior to developing what would become my principal style. Initially I chose to paint adaptations of the landscape of rural Australia, while living in, and experiencing the landscape first hand. The decision to simplify these depictions into abstractions provided the ability to explore my memories of textures, tones and sensations associated with these scapes.

My paintings are typically produced via a method of multilayering and the idea of hidden/revealed interests me. I hope that, on observation, viewers will relate to the artworks’ presence, and consider what it triggers or inspires internally.

Artist Statement

” I’m drawn to create abstract artworks that portray the connection between my intuitive ideas, moods and life experience. These artworks are extensions of my inner landscape, brought into materiality. Focusing on colour expression, the paintings initially rise out of the amalgamation of contrasting and comparable colour hues on the canvas. With the addition of mark making and symbols in a largely gestural manner, ideas of speculative imagined worlds emerge. Throughout the process, I examine the works’ conditional state and its meaning to me. Creating through a system that combines aesthetics with intuition, my artworks pour from a place of innate awareness and experiential insight.”