About

A visual artist now, but I started off as a musician (and still am), later studying for an MA and PhD, eventually becoming an academic in universities in Australia and in the UK. I made the switch to full time artist some years ago, and haven’t looked back.

My creative practice is varied. I work in both acrylics and oils, building up layers of paint as I work to reveal the complexities of textures, mark-making and colour.

Increasingly the exploration of different layers of narrative is becoming dominant in my work. My landscape work now explores the impacts of climate change on the landscape, while my abstract work, through the use of colour, shape and form, is an examination of the forces that shape both our private and social worlds.