I'm a Brisbane-based expressive acrylic artist. My father was a painter, and one of my earliest memories is the smell of oil paint and turpentine as I watched him work. I came to the brush later in life, after years in acting and music, and both still shape how I paint: the actor takes on new perspectives, the musician listens for the happy accident.
I think of my paintings the way a musician thinks of songs, a repertoire rather than a single style. My work moves across the ancient Australian landscape, luminous skies and eucalypts heavy with cockatoos, the energy of cities, and quiet figures reaching toward one another. What connects them is feeling rather than subject.
On the wall behind my easel is one word in my own handwriting: fearless. Every painting is made under that instruction. My aim is never decoration, but to provoke the viewer to look inward.