Born in Ryde NSW September 16 1953

 

Attended Epping Primary School, then Epping High School for two years, and then Normanhurst Boy’s High School until the end of Year 12

 

Studied Drawing and Painting at Hornsby TAFE 1973 and 1974

 

Starting in 1975 I continuously conducted a landscape garden design and construction service until 2019 apart from around three years, 1991 to 1993, during which I worked in partnership in a cabinet-making venture, designing and constructing solid timber bespoke furniture.

 

During all this time I continued my drawing and painting practice and also explored film photography in small, medium and large formats, and this involved some part time classes at TAFE and setting up my own darkroom at home.

 

From 2008 until 2016 I studied as a part time Arts student, majoring in philosophy, at Sydney University, during which time I won the Sir Walter Reid prize for academic excellence in two successive years.

 

My influences over time have been Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse and Soutine. And later on, as I moved closer to the understanding of abstraction in the landscape, Picasso, Braque, early Mondrian, Pollock and de Kooning also had their influences.

 

I aim to show the fractal nature of the landscape embodied in the repetitions of its pattern and form. But, most important of all, is my constant desire to render the living nature of form and light and evoke that mysterious moment when an image as gestalt first appears.

 

I moved to Stony Chute December 2019 and since 2021 have continuously shown works in the Nimbin Artist Gallery and in the two yearly Nimbin Art Fairs.