I love the Australian landscape and try to express the beauty of its unique flora on canvas as eloquently as I can in the medium of acrylic paint. Sometimes I branch out into portraiture, nudes and events, but everything is painted from the heart with my own unique view and generally representative of pathways we all tread. My family has lived on farms for seven generations, starting on the Bulga and Mt George, then Uralla and Walcha on the tablelands of NSW, and almost back to my roots in Gloucester.

Weather patterns and seasons directly influence my work, both as a painter and pastoralist, and are a facet of my connection to the land. It is my way of capturing its transience instead of taming it. I started painting in Papua New Guinea as a dare by a plantation owner to do something other than a landscape, so I did the execution of Marie Antoinette in poster colours on paper. He loved it and bought the painting, so I continued when I returned to Australia – my earlier works being in oils on hardboard.

I subsequently won the Camden Haven Bicentenary Art prize, but my greatest accolade came from Lloyd Rees with a Highly Commended at the Festival of Fishers Ghost in Sydney. There followed a list of other prizes at local shows, and
entries in the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Wynne Prize, etc. I then retrained in abstraction with John Peart and Irene Amos at the University of New England Art School. Difficult times on the land and the arrival of our first two children necessitated a hiatus in my art works until the late 1990s, when Walcha Art Society invited me to enter their competition. Biennial exhibitions have followed regularly at Uralla, Walcha, Tamworth, Newcastle, Taree and Gloucester.

My works are in private collections and galleries in Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Ireland and Australia.