The Full Story
About the Artist
I began drawing and painting as a child, with pencils in hand and dirt under my fingernails. Some of my favorite memories are of making mud pies in the backyard and collecting moss from the bushland in Kyneton — building tiny worlds for fairies, studying leaves and stones, and sketching my favourite creatures and imagined landscapes. From the very beginning, these two interests evolved convergently: a deep fascination with nature, and an equally strong pull toward drawing.
As I have grown, learning how to paint has become another way of learning how to see. Light, weather, texture, time, they have all become subjects of quiet observation. I have a lifelong connection to the alpine regions, mountain ranges, and rural landscapes of Australia, my visual language was shaped by wide horizons, twisting gumtrees, shifting skies, and the feeling of standing within something far older than myself.
As a child, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an ecologist, a marine biologist, anything that would feed my fascination with the world and the organisms inhabiting it. That curiosity never left; it simply found a home in painting. Today, I approach the landscape with the same sense of wonder, drawn to its deep time, its geological history, and the quiet evidence of everything that has passed through it before us.
Now based on the Bellarine Peninsula, I work primarily in oil, creating impressionistic landscapes that explore light, atmosphere, and the immense majesty of the landscape. My goal is not to imitate photography, but to recreate the feeling of truly seeing, the way light moves across a surface, the feelings of awe and the relief of the nervous system that standing in that great landscape can bring.
Painting, for me, is a way of contemplating and conversing with existence: my own, and that of other people, animals, and living systems. It has become a quiet practice of reverence. Each work becomes a conversation between myself, the land, and time itself: a small attempt to honour the beauty, mystery, and shared presence of this world, and to master the skill of painting.
