Gallery
Each image below clicks into a gallery of images from past exhibitions in contemporary landscape painting, sculpture and drawing.
The wilderness is at the heart of everything I create. I grew up in country Australia, where I roamed the wetlands and native bush, drawing and painting the natural landscape from a young age. My love of the bush led me to become an environmental activist throughout my 20’s, and this time spent protecting native flora and fauna has informed my art work ever since.
My art practice spans both painting, drawing and sculpture with inspiration coming from nature in all her forms. Drawing and painting from life (en plein-air) is elemental to my practice as it gives an energy and a mark that comes from the immediate atmosphere and landscape.
I aspire to an aesthetic, emotional, physical and spiritual response to nature through mark making, the quality of line, movement, colour and form, as opposed to a purely literal representation. I am particularly interested in non-literal colour as a representation of the inner emotional response to a landscape and the more theoretical concepts of colour and simplification of form.
By painting and drawing ‘en plein air’ I am able to find marks that typify the spirit of the land and the unique forms in the wilderness landscape while keeping an open and expressive quality.
My art practice spans both painting, drawing and sculpture with inspiration coming from nature in all her forms. Drawing and painting from life (en plein-air) is elemental to my practice as it gives an energy and a mark that comes from the immediate atmosphere and landscape.
I aspire to an aesthetic, emotional, physical and spiritual response to nature through mark making, the quality of line, movement, colour and form, as opposed to a purely literal representation. I am particularly interested in non-literal colour as a representation of the inner emotional response to a landscape and the more theoretical concepts of colour and simplification of form.
By painting and drawing ‘en plein air’ I am able to find marks that typify the spirit of the land and the unique forms in the wilderness landscape while keeping an open and expressive quality.