I was born and educated in South Australia (Degree in Fine Art Painting, 1975) and now work from my studio in SE Cornwall.
I lived in rural Portugal for 27 years and the ongoing series of works, entitled “Flickers” are a legacy of this experience. These semi-representational paintings explore the effect of light and shade on leaves. The camouflage of form, the detail of pattern and the capturing of movement was of particular interest.



Over the years, this abstraction from nature became an inquiry into the nature of abstraction.

My current large, abstract oil paintings use shifting fragmented layers to mark a journey through space. The works counterbalance geometry with hazy, ill-defined edges, solid passivity with energetic strokes. Sharp lighting and multiple perspectives are used to explore the concepts of time and change.

Equally, the intention behind the work has became more philosophical. My focus is on the state of being and the elusive quality of certainty. The aim is to construct an aesthetic of a beautiful disintegration and reinvention.