RESUME
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein
training
2017 Textile Residency, Odisha, India. One of 10 international artists.
2016 Artist at Tomago House, Tomago (National Trust)
2014 Tonal Impressionism – Pablo Tapia - Max Meldrum method
2014 Diploma in Advanced Painting Hunter St TAFE
2012/13 Diploma of Fine Art/Visual Art Hunter St TAFE
2011 Life Drawing with Bruce Rowland Hunter St TAFE
2010 Mark Making and Mixed Media - Anne France Fulgence Sturt Winter School
2009 Large Scale Figurative Art - David Fairbairn Sturt Summer School
2008 Pastels - Veronica O’Leary Sturt Winter School
2004 Advanced Drawing Skills and Techniques Newcastle, TAFE Plus
2003/04 Drawing the Human Figure, Diploma of Fine Art Tamworth TAFE
2001 to 1974 Designer advertising and marketing, exhibition and events and Creative Director rural publishing firm.
1980 Diploma of Art - Design
exhibitions & RESIDENCIES
2022 "Creating Necessary Objects - The Beauty of Efficient Movements"
Artist in Residence and AIR Exhibition @ Brough House, Maitland NSW
(Grossmann and Brough Houses, National Trust)
2020/21 "The Never Ending Thread, Tamworth Regional Gallery
2017 "The Never Ending Thread" Buddha Gallery, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Residency in Fakirpur, Odisha, India
2016 Artist in Residence, Tomago House, National Trust
2016 VISTAS @ Tulloch Wines
2016 Artist in residence,@ Hanging Rock
2015 Beach & Bush, Tamworth Regional Art Gallery
2015 Foresight Gallery, "Buildings, Trees & Things"
Timeless Textiles
2014 Textiles and Prints - Timeless Textiles, Newcastle “Body of Work”, Cstudio Newcastle
“Master and Apprentice” Cooks Hill Gallery -Co exhibited with Bruce Rowland Cstudio Opening Exhibition, Newcastle
INFLUENCES
Valentin Serov http://www.valentin-aleksandrovich-serov.org/
Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo http://www.antoniodattilorubbo.com.au/
Pablo Tapia http://www.franceskeevilgallery.com.au/artworks.php?artistID=15
Olga De Amaral Ohttps://www.olgadeamaral.com/
Sheila Hicks Shttps://www.sheilahicks.com/