For me, being at the beach is like painting...they both take me to a place of beauty.

Born in the coastal village of Point Lonsdale, beaches, shipping and the lighthouse at the entrance to Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay, filled my childhood. Back in Prep School I already knew that I wanted to be an artist. Magic happened with wax crayons and colour washes on paper. My parents encouraged my drawing skills, and knowledge of art history. After finishing school, I worked in Melbourne for some years. I came back home to start a business hand-painting t-shirts for sale at the Queenscliff Market. My work was applied to tourist marketing, local businesses and state governments. Visiting the Mornington Peninsula, I received commissions from wineries. A popular coastal gallery in Blairgowrie exhibited my paintings alongside Melbourne galleries at SouthBank, Sandringham, Mt. Eliza, Point Lonsdale, and Aireys Inlet. In 2008, I commenced residencies in tropical North Queensland. It’s the perfect locale for bold, colourful art. And sailing is a popular pastime. It’s fun to capture the energy and colour of yacht racing.

I love the Twitter post on my account, by an international solo sailor -

"You paint what it is to sail".

I studied at "The Gordon" in Geelong with qualifications in Visual Arts, specialising in acrylic painting techniques. I’m intrigued by bold colour, texture and lively brushstrokes.

My art is collected around Australia and internationally. I’ve exhibited in three group shows in Italy, France, and London.  In 2016, I accepted a wonderful invitation as resident artist in a luxury resort in the Maldives. It was three months of artistic revelation. I love aquamarine waters alive with gorgeous corals and fish. A castaway lifestyle of gentle waves, soft breezes, and palm trees gracing white coral sands.

These experiences flow through me in the studio, after a meander along the beach at Point Lonsdale with my Dachsund Patrick.  At day’s end, we go out exploring again, refreshed by the ever-changing sea and sky.

Commissions are welcome.

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