About

A visual artist now, but I started off as a musician (and still am). Before becoming a full-time artists, I gained both an MA in Psychology (which included studying both art history and aesthetics) and a PhD in Industrial Psychology, eventually becoming an academic in universities in Australia and in the UK. Throughout my childhood and adult years I have drawn and painted, and while studying at university I regularly attended life drawing classes at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. 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 explores both the seasonal and man-made impacts on landscape contours, 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.