Vivi was born in Melbourne and her love for drawing and painting began at an early age.
She studied science at Monash University, graduating with a degree in Microbiology and Immunology. After several years working in a medical laboratory, Vivi resigned from her diagnostic career and moved from inner city Melbourne to Bayside Beaumaris to raise her young family.
Her proximity to the sea and natural beauty of Bayside, inspired Vivi to reconsider her primary passion and that was to paint.
She took the opportunity to take classes in the key mediums of watercolour, acrylic and oil for a number of years which started a focus on painting that has been her passion for the last twenty years. In that time Vivi also branched out into teaching and mentoring her own classes, both locally and overseas with en plein air workshops.
Vivi has enjoyed and continues to enjoy painting a variety of subject matter, such as figurative, landscape and seascape works. In particular, she seeks to capture and transfer to the viewer the serenity and calm found in nature as a contrast to the busy and frenetic pace of everyday life. She also sets time aside weekly to experiment with different media so as to fully push her creative boundaries and grow as an artist.
She has been a member at Brighton, Beaumaris and Mentone-Mordialloc Art Groups for many years and teaches acrylic at Mentone Mordialloc Art Group, oil at Brighton Art Society and watercolour privately at a beach side studio in Beaumaris.
Her work can be seen at Without Pier Gallery in Bay Rd Cheltenham and Town and Country Gallery in Yarragon, Victoria.
In 2006, Vivi was accepted as a full member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, where she was also involved as a committee member with a keen interest in arranging forums to inspire current and budding artists. Vivi is also a member of the Australian Watercolour Society, the Victorian Artists Society and the Melbourne Society Of Women Painters and Sculptors, (MSWPS).
She has received many awards and continues to participate in many art shows. In October 2013, her painting titled “Sandringham Yacht Club Vista”, was nominated as a finalist for the Australian Mortimore Art Prize.
Vivi was also nominated as one of thirty artists to participate in 2013, 2015 and 2016 Victorian Artist Of The Year Award, for Victorian Artist Society.
