Why I paint.
I share insights into the strange and beautiful details from nature that might otherwise be readily overlooked in a busy distracted world.
Enlarging what is tiny; simplifying or exaggerating patterns, details, colours and textures - using paint, pastels and other materials. I hope to guide you to more readily experience what I have observed. To ignite your curiosity and sense of wonder, to help you feel uplifted and possibly even increase your value and appreciation for the natural world.
Before becoming an artist, I studied and worked as an environmental scientist.
Then years of physical illness in my twenties led me to painting as a tool to create visual reminders of my fascination and delight for nature. I wanted to capture those fleeting moments where you notice some tiny detail and you are reminded how magical the world can be, in spite of circumstances.
I live in Albany, Western Australia, (a coastal town on the southernmost tip of the state, five hours south of Perth). I paint in the huge backyard shed with my two dogs - Django and Jazz - and a tiny Australian parrot named Opal.