I was born in Christchurch and studied art and design at Christchurch Polytechnic, graduating in 1992 with a diploma of Visual Communications. I went on to work as a graphic designer and illustrator along with some time away travelling before taking up painting full-time in 2010.

I currently work from my home studio in central Christchurch where I enjoy making art connected to nature and my immediate surroundings. My most recent series has focused on a collection of foraged treasures from the beach and local countryside including birds’ nests, feathers and shells as well as family heirlooms which I curate into still lives, giving a new lease of life to these sometimes overlooked objects.  My process usually starts with drawing and often involves combining abstraction and realism, finding a happy balance between the two. I work across a range of mediums from watercolour and fluid acrylics to oil painting as well as printmaking depending on the series. I'm interested in conveying a sense of movement and energy particularly in landscape works.

I’m currently represented by Oxford Gallery and Art Box Gallery in Christchurch and Tait Gallery in Hanmer Springs.

COMMISSIONS:    Icon Communications, ‘The Art of Discovery’ Ad campaign for Avis

In 2019 I was selected by Icon Communications as one of the artists to feature in an Australasian wide ad Campaign for Avis called ‘The Art of Discovery’.  For this I created three semi-abstract landscapes of Banks Peninsula, which went on to feature on billboards at Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch International Airports.

I’ve also completed many private commissions and enjoy the process of engaging and working with people to help bring their vision and ideas to life.

ART RESIDENCY - OXFORD GALLERY:

2020 brought the opportunity to be involved in an innovative artist residency called ‘Open House’ at Oxford Gallery where a group of seven printmakers worked in the gallery space over a ten-week period interacting with the public about their work and conducting demonstrations of printmaking techniques.  It was great fun and we have subsequently stayed together as a group and will continue to exhibit together into the future.

PUBLICATIONS:

PROOF - Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand, Massey University Press
Image: Gran’s Teaset and Pearls

EXHIBITIONS (selected):

Group Show Cloisters Gallery 2010

Art in a Garden 2011

Arts in Oxford Group Show, May 2012

Peninsula Figures in the Landscape, Solo show, Chambers Gallery, Rangiora, May 2015

Limbs, Solo show, Arts in Oxford Gallery, October 2015

Art in a Garden 2016

Accumulative Group Show, Arts in Oxford, Oct 2016

Cleveland National Art Awards, Dunedin 2017

From the Rivers to the Shore, Group Print Exhibition, Arts in Oxford, Depot Artspace Auckland, 2017

Pegasus Bay Art Show Oct 2017

Sanctuary, group exhibition, Artists Against Slavery, Arts in Oxford 2017

Castle Hill Biennial Easter Art Exhibition 2018

Avis ‘Art of Discovery’ commissions Banks Peninsula 2019

Near and Far, solo show, Arts in Oxford, Feb 2019

Peninsula Art Auction, Lyttelton, May 2019

Openhouse Printmakers Artist Residency, Oxford Gallery, 2020

Print Council of NZ Postcards Exhibition, 2021

Art Box 10 Year Anniversary Show, 2021

Openhouse Printmakers Group Show – New Works, Oxford Gallery, October 2021

Oxford Summer Group Show, Dec-Jan 2021/22

Body Language Group Show, Art on the Quay, Kaiapoi 2022

Peninsula Art Auction 2023

Oxford Summer Show 2023/24