After a career in HR and banking Management, I attended an art school in Sydney and there I attempted my first oil painting. I knew instantly that the luminosity of the oil paint with its gloss, vibrancy and sensuous colours was for me and 20 years on that hasn’t changed.

I love to paint our landscape and its relationship with land, sea and sky. Sometimes I am very abstract and free and sometimes there is a little realism incorporated into my paintings. But in the main my process is to experiment with the paint allowing the painting to evolve. Where a painting ends up is not always intentional, but what is intentional is the idea of capturing or suggesting a memory of a place in our subconscious. Land forms and markings mainly come from my imagination and I enjoy playing with layers, building up, parring back, scraping and excavating parts to reveal colours underneath then repainting over using a variety of tools to create movement, mood and effect. My current work explores abstract seas and land forms mostly derived from my imagination but inspired by our beautiful country.

I have exhibited in established galleries around New Zealand, been invited to exhibit internationally and have works in private collections and corporates here and overseas. I have also organised and curated many art exhibitions for fundraising, am a co-founder of ARTrove, ARThouse Wadestown and am an art curator for The Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington.