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As RASart 2021 drew to a close I was lucky enough to be asked to represent the Redcliffe Art Society in a live painting demonstration at the Redcliffe Art Ga...
Earlier this month I had the honor of presenting an artist talk about my method of oil painting en plein air at Warwick Art Gallery. The talk was given as part of my first solo show entitled Plein Air Park: Recreational Enjoyment of Light - a series of small paintings made on location at the…
July saw my folks and I return to our property at Beebo. We had lots of work to do in our plantation as well as pause for celebrating my painting exhibition at Goondiwindi. It was lovely to have my sister and niece join us for the special occasion. Athena thoroughly enjoyed having free reign of…
In 2018, upon my return from Maryvale to Redcliffe I made sure the first thing I did was re-join my local art society. I believe as an artist it is important to be anchored to a community and while it may seem like an unusual match given I am half the age of most members…
“When I was a kid, we didn’t go camping. Instead my family 'went bush' to visit Grandad at his Beebo property. Perpetually dressed in pale blue overalls, Grandad worked for decades leaving his mark on the landscape. For me, each glimpse of pale blue in sky, water or structure brings to mind those favourite overalls.…
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In a loose wabi sabi way the imperfection of the hole punctuating this work resonates with my choice of boring, everyday scenery. In this case a canal at the back of the shopping centre near my house. I favour sites like this over typical picturesque scenery because by painting a place I can elevate the…
Late last year, around the time of my sister's birthday, we went away for an all-girl getaway to Noosa. Mum, Chrissy, Athena and I stayed in a cool holiday unit with a fascinating view overlooking Noosa. By day and night the view was equally interesting. Every morning you could see surfers like black seals out…
While painting at my local cemetery I held in the back of my mind an image from Plato's myth of Er. I fancied this sun-kissed grassy space to be the meadow visited by souls who having completed punishment in Hades or enjoyed the rewards of Heaven must now choose their next life. A vaguely ancient-looking…
2021 see's me launching my very first touring exhibition. Since 2018 I've been producing paintings made on location at my family property in Beebo South-West of Brisbane. The place once belonged to my Grandad. By way of building and farming projects his effects on the landscape are still evident today. He was a hard…
Look closely and you will see a little suggestion of a building in the distance, this is the Redcliffe Hospital the place where I was born. Since moving back into my old bedroom I only just discovered that I could see it from here. All those years I used this room as a teenager I…
Tinkerer's Bell, a short fashion film set against a hot and bleak bush background, re-imagines the typical lost child narrative of fairy tales past, this time with a dystopian twist! Substituting old cans for breadcrumbs, will this sartorial Gretel ever escape the harsh Australian environment? I made this foray into short filmmaking to showcase one…
Recently, I was lucky enough to have my name put forward for a mural painting job at Osprey House at Dohles Rocks, Queensland. I'm really thankful to have received this opportunity, it's the first time I've taken on such work and it's both exciting and a bit daunting! That said, I'm up for the challenge…
I am very excited to have my painting A Home for Machines (2020) included in the Moreton Bay Region 202115 Artists annual acquisitive prize exhibition. How did I come to be included you may ask? Well, due to an historical agreement between council and the Redcliffe Art Society I gained automatic entry as winner of…
As RASart 2021 drew to a close over the weekend I was lucky enough to be asked to represent the Redcliffe Art Society in a live painting demonstration at the Redcliffe Art Gallery. Fellow art society painter Jim Edwards was my obliging model. Over the course of two hours I worked at capturing his likeness…
I've just completed my second ever mural gig! It was a private commission for an artist I know through community art groups in Redcliffe. Jan Cunningham runs Eykandi Art Studio from her backyard studio in Brighton. Her paintings are colourful crowd pleasers and she loves sewing too, her specialty is baby quilts featuring Australian native…
