My studio is a basically restored century-old orchard shed, a remnant of past land use in the Southern Highlands, land of the Gundungarra people.There is no electricity or water , but I share the site with dozens of Eastern Grey kangaroos.

After consolidating my painting practice with a BVA from Sydney University, my work has been one of personal enquiry into the very nature of painting - its qualities of colour, and form. Utilising a variety of painting surfaces, including Perspex, and concentrating on two compositional elements led to a furious output. I was playing with the idea of an enhanced gestural sweep of the brush interacting with colour planes of colour. A visual duality.

Psychologically, I was thinking….. two contradictory states of being can be present at the same time, such as being both joyful and sad.

My paintings, since 2023, expound on the technique of Automatism, made popular by the Surrealists, where unplanned forms evolve through both layering and intuitive colour expression.

Visual duality in the composition remains within narratives drawn from the subconscious.

Being a birdwatcher and bushland regenerator, nature is easily observed and incorporated into a new series of works on canvas.