about the artwork

Most artworks are created on 300gsm watercolour paper, using primarily Daniel Smith watercolours. These are the highest quality paints available and ensure a long life for your artwork.

Unless otherwise specified, all artworks are unframed, and will be posted rolled in a PostPak tube to protect them. Artwork is posted using registered Australia Post. Postage within Australia is included. Please contact me for international shipping.

To purchase a piece, please use the contact form. Payments can be made via PayPal.

bio

I have no desire for angst or messages in my work. All I want is the sigh of a beautiful wash of colour.

 And I want to share that sigh with you.

Once considered conservative, even old fashioned, painting with fluid media is enjoying a worldwide resurgence of popularity, possibly because in an era so full of stress and fear, it has such a soft, seductive, nurturing feel, compared to more structured tight media like acrylic or oil paint.

The beautiful flow of watercolour and its ability to achieve subtle colour changes is its defining feature, making it the ideal media for capturing the soft plump curve of a child’s cheek, or the seductive line of a woman’s fulsome hip.

Who wouldn’t enjoy the slow heavy swish of a fully loaded wash brush across crisp white paper, flowing like a veil of silk over a warm body, or the quixotic mingling of pigments, and the rapid tap of a details brush as they paint?  This is a mysterious, elusive, often unpredictable agent for capturing shape or atmosphere, and it is sheer bliss.

As you’ve read, watercolour painting is a very intimate occupation, requiring intimate subjects, treated with balance, planning, and care. It cannot be forced to conform, but must be gently coaxed. My art reflects a desire for simplicity and I seek ways to achieve this in the viewer’s eye, even if the actual artistic process is more complicated.

Some of my works are rendered with vintage diamine, acrylic or walnut ink. Most are in professional quality Daniel Smith watercolour paints, and may be on either paper or canvas.

In the world of art, watercolour is considered a difficult medium. Learning to master it has taught me not to give up, and to continue to work through a challenging phase in a painting to resolve a problem.

I am a self taught artist, who has undertaken numerous workshops at Charles Sturt University, and similar venues, in order to increase my proficiency within various media. 

My work has been exhibited in both private and public spaces throughout Brisbane, Moreton Bay, and South Burnett Regions.

I now live in a creative environment outside Brisbane, Australia .