Welcome to my website
A childhood spent on the waterways of lutruwita/Tasmania and a passion for exploring wild places sparked my watercolour 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.
As an adult I have been fortunate to free dive in some of the most beautiful places in the world, across Australia, South and Central America including Cuba and Mexico, Europe, and parts of Asia. 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.
Largely 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!
The fish allow me to indulge my love of the sea and obsession with colour. Watercolour is an unpredictable medium, or as I like to think, a little bit of playful magic. I love watching the colours push and pull against each other to give an outcome I can never entirely predict, and I love that the colours are so intense but also so transparent at the same time.
In painting my fish, I want to create beautiful works that make people feel good, and maybe even evoke a favourite childhood memory of their own. Perhaps being by the Sea, running along the shoreline or exploring rock pools, transporting them to a time when the sun was on their back and they were embraced by the wonder of the natural environment…
