Creating is not new to me and other than some singing lessons as a teen, I am self-taught in all I create.

I spent the first two decades of my life loving drawing, the third consumed with professional singing and writing music, and now I have been drawn back once again to the relentless lure of the hidden trance in creating. Many hours of my life have passed preoccupied with creating drawing after drawing, song after song and now, painting after painting.

I’ve always loved the wildness of nature, the grandeur of big skies, storms, and cloud formations; particularly the skies that are framed by the Illawarra escarpment. I choose an abstract style as I don’t want to think too much, to try and ‘be correct’ and care about making mistakes. At this stage, I paint in acrylic, incorporating charcoal and soft pastels at times and I may use brushes, a spray bottle, my fingers, sponges, a toothbrush, a pipette, a cloth, whatever really, depending on the image I am trying to create. I photograph striking cloud formations that drape over Mt Keira Wollongong, my home, and sometimes try to bring them to life on canvas but generally, my creative process is not planned, but rather my attempt at capturing the fleeting mental images I have moments before I apply colour to canvas. It’s almost as if the painting is telling me what it wants, and my job is to keep up. The painting takes on a life of its own and seems to know when it is done.