Artist, Teacher, Drawing, and Painting

My themes are based on time, place & experience. I am environmentally inspired. My latest exhibition based on Water and Light was an escape from endless drought and fire. Painting for me is a problem solving, I have done it all my life, it is my safe place. Creativity is like capturing water in your hand, the more you try to contain it, the more it slips away. Creativity needs to be honest, don't pretend it is something that it is not.

Visual Arts has been a constant throughout my life. I commenced teaching Visual Arts in my early twenties, which hastened my own steep learning curve in gaining the necessary experience & qualifications. Creating art is about problem solving & that is the ongoing challenge.

Graduate Diploma in Education UNE Armidale 2007; Cert IV assessment and Workplace Training 2006; Advanced Dip of Visual Arts Tamworth TAFE 1994; Associate Dip of Arts Tamworth Tafe 1991; Art Cert Course East Sydney Technical College 1980-1981;