Background

I started painting on retirement from teaching, joining an oil painting class at Kogarah Bay, learning oil painting techniques from a master artist and enjoying the benefits of social life with like-minded artists.

Along the way I have experimented with acrylics, watercolour and mixed media. Mostly these days I paint with acrylics but enjoy painting small watercolours and cards. I have found painting to be a vehicle for my mental relaxation, to preserve my personal space and as a form of creative expression which can be both solitary yet social. I enjoy painting floral compositions and still life; life drawing in charcoal; and painting birds, especially pelicans.

My next goal is to develop a more contemporary style and branch into abstract works.