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A childhood spent on the waterways of lutruwita/Tasmania and a passion for exploring wild places sparked my painting practice. My first boating trip was when I was just two weeks old, and halcyon summers were spent boating around wukaluwikiwayna/Maria Island on Tasmania’s pristine East Coast with my parents and three older brothers, fishing, free diving and beach combing.

Family time is now spent with my three young children and my husband, an accomplished yachtsman, aboard our boat on the same waterways I grew up on.  Together we instil this love for the ocean in our kids, who all enjoy diving for crayfish and mucking around on boats!

Growing up in a creative home, I started drawing at a very early age under the guidance of my artist mother (occasionally wagging school to attend life drawing classes with her). Art has always been my strength and saviour.  

Self-taught, I began drawing fish as a way to entertain my young children at the kitchen table. Plucking up the courage to share some of those first scribbles on social media, I was overwhelmed by the response. 

As a passionate conservationist my home studio is an inspiring place to paint my fish, with views of the iconic Organ Pipes of kunanyi/Mount Wellington and timtumili minanya/River Derwent. Yet no matter where I am, I am never without my art supplies, and drive my husband crazy leaving trails of charcoal and watercolour all over our boat!

Having commenced with a portfolio of fish species in watercolour,  I have more recently been concentrating on my true passion, abstract landscapes in oils. Specifically underwater landscapes, again drawing on memories from my time submersed in both local and far away waters.

Abstract oil sings for me as a way to express myself in an expressive, colourful and playful way. I use bold bright colours with undertones of softness. Some marks are gentle, dreamy, floaty and others are sharper allowing them to come forward.

Sometimes my fastest mark making is my most rewarding. It allows me to capture a fleeting feeling and the paintings becomes alive. Many of my paintings are of memories of time spent with my father who passed away when I was quite young. It is, however, only when I finish a piece that I realise it is representative of a memory long forgotten.

My latest body of work uniquely captures the whimsy and other worldliness of the underwater adventures I have shared with my family over the years, with both a depth and naivety drawing the viewer in all at once.