I live in Northland, New Zealand near the Northern Wairoa River.
its weirdly bizarre how I reactivated my art journey. After a successful detached retina operation I started to see things in a different way - colours were brighter, forms more defined, shadows more intense and was inspired to I pick up my brushes again.
After a visit to my artist nephews studio in Victoria, Australia my interest rocketed - the colors, the paints, the pastels and I was itching to get my hands on all the art materials. As I moved paint, pastel and oil crayons across the paper. I was hooked ! It is such fun to be a painter !
I couldn't put down the materials and returned from Australia with my suitcase full of paintings that I wouldn't let out of my sight.
Massively inspired by this trip and realising I needed some technical skills I studied with The Learning Connexion in Wellington where i discovered a passion for charcoal, portraits and abstracts and I haven't stopped experimenting since.
My passion is for photography, abstraction, expressionism, flowers and botanicals dripping with luscious color. I am inspired by nature, the landscape, texture - rust, peeling plaster, peeling paint and decay, rocks, stones all holds a myriad of colours within. Artists who have inspired me are Matisse, Gauguin, Picasso, Dali, Russell Drysdale ( skies) Tracy Verdugo and Renee Mueller - flowers and portraits.