BIOGRAPHY

While completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 1995, I studied black and white photography, then completed the degree with two years of painting. After working in black and white photography, I welcomed getting back to using colour and brushwork.

The Auckland West Coast beaches and Waitakere Ranges where I grew up, have always been a strong visual influence, as well as the journey too and from the city. As part of exploring the borders between these urban and rural environments, I like to use soft landscape forms against structural man-made elements. Over the last 3 years I have been developing my technique and subject
matter to the point where I have settled into a consistent way of working. I enjoy bold bright colour (complementaries), but also like the contrast between soft and bright, dark and light, thick and thin paint applications, line and blended colour. I like to use the paint in these ways, to support the theme of borders within my work.