ABOUT ME
 
I am Australian born but a creature of the Universe and started my career painting fantasies on interior walls in London. 

Although untrained, my fascination with texture and medium led me to apprenticeships in Italy & Guernsey and a course in Chinoiserie brush techniques at Beijing University, China. At this time my strongest influence was French Surrealism, a style which led me to question my own perception of reality. On a visit to San Francisco I found myself strongly drawn to a group of artists based in Sausalito. Rousseau-like, their wildlife fantasias reconnected me with my own inner Universe, and so began my visionary journey into art.

In the early '90s I began painting on canvas and found the influences from my past allowed me to express the colourful surreal imagery of my inner world. 

  
 
I have exhibited in USA, UK and Australia and been represented in various magazines.

Today my work continues to explore the transformative process of healing art, drawing on the transpersonal for self-understanding, personal growth and the knowledge that creativity, health and spirit are related on a deep level.

A committed vegetarian, my heart reaches out to the animals we treat so inhumanely. Even in our own life experiences, I believe each one of us has suffered in some way. It is the wisdom gained from this suffering that gives us the capacity to heal ourselves, each other and the Planet. Therefore isn't healing about compassion, not authority and expertise? The quality of our listening, not the wisdom of our words. Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions for my site.