My practice begins with observing the world around me and translating everyday experience through drawing and painting. My subjects and palette are deeply connected to where I live, shaped by the landscape, light, colour and rhythms of my surroundings.
Drawing is the foundation of my work. I often feel that I draw with paint, using marks, colour and gesture to create a visual language beyond words. I am drawn to the sensuality of oil paint and its capacity to continually transform through layering, movement and experimentation.
Being outdoors and running the trails around where I live has become an important influence on my work. The physical experience of moving through the landscape informs the energy and movement within my paintings. I am interested not only in depicting a place, but in capturing the feeling of being immersed within it.
Whether working with landscape, still life or portraiture, I increasingly see my paintings as reflections of my own journey. With time and experience, I have come to understand that what I paint is inseparable from how I see and experience the world.
For me, painting is a way of paying attention—to the present, to memory, and to the fleeting moments of everyday life. Each work becomes both an observation and a record: a way of holding onto something while it is still present. In this sense, my practice is an ongoing conversation between life and art, observation and memory, place and self.
When I’m Among The Trees. 180 x 220cm . Oil on canvas. Available Australian Galleries