For me, painting has always been about more than creating something beautiful for a wall. I want my work to create a feeling.
I’m drawn to colour, light, water, atmosphere and those quiet, almost otherworldly moments that are hard to describe but instantly recognisable when you feel them. My paintings often sit somewhere between the natural world and the imagined, with references to oceans, shifting skies, distant horizons, nebulae and light moving through space.
I’m not usually trying to paint a literal place. I’m much more interested in creating something that feels familiar without being completely defined.
Finding my way back to art
I knew from around the age of seven that I wanted to be an artist.
Life took me in a different direction for many years, and I went on to build a career in advertising and the creative industries. But the urge to paint never really left me, and in late 2016 I came back to it seriously.
What started as a creative outlet gradually became something much more significant. The more I painted, the more I realised that this was the work I had always wanted to be doing.
A major turning point came through my experience with Reiki.
I’m now a Reiki Master, and the intuitive and meditative elements of Reiki changed the way I approached painting. I became less interested in trying to control the outcome and more interested in trusting the process.
I often begin a painting without a detailed plan, reference image or predetermined composition. I might have a colour direction, a feeling or an energy I want to explore, but I allow the work to evolve as I go.
That freedom has become central to my practice.
Inspired by water, light and the unseen
Nature is probably my greatest source of inspiration, particularly water and light.
I’m fascinated by oceans, coastlines, changing skies, clouds, horizons and the way light can transform a landscape. I’m equally drawn to things that feel less tangible: energy, space, distant galaxies, atmosphere and imagined worlds.
Those influences often merge in my paintings.
Someone might look at one of my works and see an aerial coastline, while someone else sees clouds, a planet or something microscopic. I love that. I don’t feel the need to define exactly what the viewer is looking at.
In many ways, that sense of ambiguity is part of the work.
Over time, my paintings have evolved through a number of bodies of work, including my Nebula & Aurora, Orb and Littoral series.
My Orb paintings, in particular, developed quite naturally from the atmospheric work I had already been creating. Translucent circular forms began appearing in the paintings and gradually became a much stronger part of my visual language.
I never consciously sat down and decided what my “style” should be.
It emerged through years of painting, experimenting and paying attention to the things I kept returning to: luminosity, transparency, depth, movement, colour and the feeling of something floating just beyond reach.
Creating a sense of calm
One of the things I care about most is how a painting feels once it leaves my studio and becomes part of someone’s home.
I want my work to have presence, but I don’t want it to overwhelm a space.
There is something beautiful about a painting that can shift the energy of a room without demanding attention every second. Something you can walk past every day and still notice something new in.
I think this is where my interest in art, intuition and Reiki all meet.
I’m interested in creating work that feels calming, expansive and uplifting. Not because I want to dictate how someone should feel, but because I know how powerful visual environments can be.
Some of the most meaningful feedback I receive is from collectors who tell me how a painting makes them feel.
People have described my work as calming, luminous, ethereal and soothing. One collector spoke about its “soothing mystique”, while another described the way the forms in my Orb paintings seem to glow and float.
That kind of response means a great deal to me because it reflects much of what I hope the work can bring into a space.
Exhibiting my work
Since returning seriously to painting, I’ve had the opportunity to exhibit across Melbourne and Victoria in a number of galleries and exhibition spaces.
These have included West End Art Space, Yering Station Art Gallery, Manyung Gallery, Montsalvat, fortyfivedownstairs, Tokar Estate and 26 Advantage Gallery.
My 2022 solo exhibition, Manifest, was an especially important milestone for me. It brought together many of the ideas I had been exploring around atmosphere, light, energy and intuition, and marked a significant point in the development of my work.
I’ve also been fortunate to be selected as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize on multiple occasions.
My work is now held in private collections in Australia and internationally, and I’ve also created larger commissioned works for commercial and corporate environments, including a permanent installation at 1 Collins Street in Melbourne.
Seeing my paintings move beyond the studio and become part of people’s homes and workplaces is still one of the most rewarding parts of what I do.
Commissioning an original artwork
Alongside the original paintings I release through my studio, I also accept a limited number of private commissions.
Often a commission begins when someone connects strongly with an existing painting but needs a different size or colour palette for their own space.
The process is collaborative, but I still need enough creative freedom for the painting to evolve naturally.
Collectors can guide me on things like dimensions, colour direction and the style or series they are drawn to. From there, I work intuitively to create something that feels connected to my broader body of work while still being completely individual.
I’ve created commissioned paintings for homes and businesses in Australia and overseas, and I always find it special knowing that a work has been created for a particular person and place.
Limited Edition Fine Art Prints
For collectors who love my work but may not be looking for an original, I also offer a selection of paintings as Limited Edition Fine Art Prints.
Each edition is limited to 50 and produced from high-resolution photography of the original artwork, with great care taken to reproduce the colour, depth and tonal detail as faithfully as possible.
The prints are available in a range of sizes and can be purchased as loose canvas to be stretched and framed locally, or as finished framed works.
One of the nicest compliments I’ve received came from a collector who told me that visitors regularly assume her limited-edition canvas print is an original painting.
That is exactly what I want from the reproduction process: for the colour and atmosphere of the original to carry through as beautifully as possible.
Where to find my work
My available original paintings and limited edition prints can be viewed through my website.
I release new work throughout the year, and collectors can join my mailing list to hear about new originals, upcoming releases and commissions.
I love hearing what different people see in the same painting.
And most of all, I love creating work that can bring something meaningful into the spaces where people live and work.
Sometimes that might be a sense of calm. Sometimes it might be energy, movement or curiosity.
Most of all though, I hope they give you permission to stop for a moment. To look. To breathe. And simply be.
To find out more, visit my website or contact me with any questions.