More than 30 years of art practice
I graduated from Sydney's National Art School with a major in painting and have been a practising artist for more than 30 years. My exhibitions have included works based on inner-city bar compositions, ocean landscapes, river scrub and mangrove landscapes.
My experimental mangrove landscape paintings use multiple layers of pigment, often run across the canvas in different directions. I often paint the canvases flat on the ground, drip pigment from different heights, then lift and turn the works as the liquid paint forms patterns and colour combinations.
This process can be quite random, but often produces unexpected and highly distinctive works that are almost impossible to replicate. Sometimes birds are hidden in the leaves and twisted stems of the mangroves, or obscured by dribbles, drips and trickles of pigment.
Biography
2021 The Ripple Effect, Art Space on The Concourse, Chatswood
2018 Second Nature, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
2016 Low Tide, Foyer Exhibition Space, Chatswood
2015 Mishmash of Mangroves, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
2013 Korea Australia Arts Foundation Prize, selected works
2010 Characteristic Views, Marianne Newman Gallery, Crows Nest
2008 Young Ballerinas, Michael Commerford Gallery, Rushcutters Bay
2007 Summer Show, Michael Commerford Gallery, Rushcutters Bayz
2005 Ocean Blue, Surry Hills Art Gallery
2004 Greenwich Visions, Foyer Exhibition Space, Chatswood
2004 South Coast Blue, Michael Commerford Gallery, Rushcutters Bay
2003 South Coast, Surry Hills Art Gallery
2001 River Scrub, Surry Hills Art Gallery
2001 Group show, Gallery 2021, Auckland, New Zealand
2000 River Landscapes, Surry Hills Art Gallery
1999 On The Tiles group show, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney Uni
1999 Chasing Chooks, Atrium Gallery, ABC Studios, Ultimo
1998 Dogs and Chooks, Surry Hills Art Gallery, Surry Hills
1997 Works from the Chookyard, Michael Commerford Gallery, Rushcutters Bay
1996 Tip Landscapes, Bottland Gallery, Surry Hills
1994 Whitsunday Landscapes, Newtown Gallery
1989 Drummoyne Gallery
1989 Group show, Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, East Sydney