Works: 1980-1989
When I began to paint professionally, I experimented incessantly with various media, including charcoal, pastel, mixed wet and dry media, watercolour, gouache, egg tempera and acrylic. I was inspired by the work of Andrew Wyeth, Robert Bateman and Raymond Harris-Ching amongst others. It was a fortuitous coincidence, that at the time that I entered the professional art scene, I moved to a part of Australia that was gifted with an abundance of local wildlife and important historical sites.
To give you an example, the painting titled 'Petrel's room' is really a portrait of Petrel, even though she is not there! She was the daughter of the Headman of the whaling station at Victor Harbor. I painted it whilst in her room at the Fountain Inn, near the Bluff. Petrel Cove has been named after her.
