“We spend much of our lives seeing without observing” - Andy Warhol I create art to capture the exquisite beauty I observe in our natural world, sharing the glorious minutiae in the everyday that is often obscured and overlooked. If it makes my heart sing then I’ll paint it.
I paint in a style of Realism, specifically Nature Realism. My work is detailed and I sometimes choose to have a muted or plain background so that there is no distraction from the unique characteristics of the subject. My mission is to let the viewer feel the beauty that I see.
My medium in the past has been oils but I have in recent years embraced acrylics.
My lifetime love of animals and nature shows in my subject matter- an array of animals each with their own unique personality captured in my work. My pieces include animals from our wildlife in Australia - birds, bees, roos, numbats, lizards and anything that catches my eye and stirs my soul. Researching my subjects is part of the fun of creating paintings. A stroll through the bush, in the garden, along the beach and at the park always makes me stop in wonder as I watch the bees at work pollinating, the birds busying themselves in the branches and the seagulls resting or flying high.