Born: 1947, Sydney

Lives and works: Manly, QLD

I was born in Sydney in 1947 and grew up in Walgett, NSW outback.  I always had paints and brushes, paper was hard to find sometimes and this is why I paint on anything to hand now.  I attended high school in Newcastle.  My years of raising small children were spent in Tamworth, where the influences were county music and fibre arts.  I consider myself a Queenslander now, the strong light is familiar from childhood in the bush.  My sense of space, light, little shadow, juxtaposition is informed by the open landscape of far western NSW.  I work in isolation, always seeking beauty in truth.  I paint to satisfy the compulsion to create, I follow my own rules and if people like the end result I’m happy, and always a little surprised.  

Courtesy of the Artist 2017