Background:

I have been painting for the last 20 years, 16 of those years have dedicated to watercolour. I have always been interested in drawing and painting and an introduction to Decorative Art got me started on my journey.

I like to paint varied subject matter but I always return to my passion to paint wild life and birds. I also paint landscape/seascape, still life and floral and still experiment with figurative and portraiture.

Over the years I have attended many workshops with well known artist/tutors mainly at Mitchell School of Art at Charles Sturt University situated in Bathurst, NSW, Grafton, NSW and Kurrajong, NSW to name a few.

Tutors who have influenced me are Keith Norris (deceased), Barry & Lucy McCann, Joseph Zbukvic, Denis Clark, Herman Pekel, Ron Muller, Neil Taylor, Lorraine Lewitzka, John Lovett , Amanda Hyatt and Helen Cottle. I spent a few years at Werrington Tafe NSW and Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney to hone my skills as I am predominantly self taught and needed the professional guidance and sometimes inspiration.

I have exhibited my work in several group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013.