About Me.
I have truthfully become alert to the fact that intricate images such as a work of art, an expansive vista, or a group of animals, entertain the neurons in our heads most!
Art makes me happy! I say, “Laugh yourself smarter quicker!” Have you considered, “Perhaps humour activates our brains and enriches our welfare more than anything else”?
Life’s necessities are faith, hope, and love! Through my gifting of the enjoyment of art, I can comprehend my canvases as a Heavenly appointment. Feeling honoured God has granted me this grace in time to be emotionally expressive inside my artwork. I endeavour to be creative to benefit the observer, virtuously motivated and economical!
Humour assists my painting strokes and helps the human race survive by increasing the odds that the smartest and most creative people multiply!
Being attracted to art since childhood, I would play with a design using my emotional strength to gather a balance of stories, often with bright colours, which follows me around in the environment from where we experience life unfolding.
My challenge today is to build on what was discipline, tradition and onto the “what is happening now” phase globally. I moved from oils to acrylics finding the acrylic colours brighter and easier to work onto the canvas. These days emotional, expressional art is my focus!
I am continually moved by world situations, and in my art series I recognise theories such as Love and War, expressed in my "Love and War series 2016". This is the world we have become aligned to. Then there is the “Rebirth series 2017", with an embryo growing, glowing and flowing. How right or wrong are they?
The 2018 Art Series is a “Musical Moods” theme, which is an inspiration put together through my New York Broadway experience, and visits to various churches. Technology is our scientific friend, human contact refined. I wish to bring the human observer into the atonement of turning their spirit over. I want you to look and think, to arrive at proper conclusions. What does this art statement mean? Are you humour-challenged? Are your neurons working?
My 2019 “Seeing Beyond” art series brings forth the idea of not just seeing in front and around you, it imagines navigating through the painting, seeing beyond!
Breathe in the artwork, hear music, and with your eyes search your human heart for the answers! Does this resonate with you?
I feel strongly about the arts in a culture where we are confused by negative visual stimuli and distractions. Two things that affect the human soul are beauty and affliction. My aim is to open our minds up to thinking beyond the simple forms of line, texture, content, story, colour, and waves created by movement of the paintbrush. This will give hope, faith, love and time to dream about what is behind and what is in front!
I paint from my artistic creation studio in Australia. My anointed art studio in the USA is hidden by the beauty of a glorious 100-year-old Magnolia tree, which can be seen from the French windows. The birds tweet, the squirrel visits, there is silence, then my music!
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EDUCATION
​LL.D. (USA) Honorary
​Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia - workshops and seminars
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia - culture and art courses
University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia - politics, culture and art courses
NSW weekend retreats - workshops for artists
Morocco two week retreats - workshops for Artists and Writers
BSF - South Australia
The Royal Art Society of NSW - workshops in traditional Art
Hales Business College, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abbotsleigh Private School, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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EXPERIENCE / SKILLS
​St Marks Church Australia, Choir and volunteer work
St James Church Australia, volunteer work
St Andrews Cathedral, USA, Choir and volunteer work
Patron of the Foundation of the AGNSW
Task Force member and service at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Foundation Member of the Art Gallery of NSW, Australia
Business Development Consultant, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Writer and Public Speaker
Community Radio Station, Newsreader, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
Public Relations Events Manager, and Fund Raiser,
​ Dubbo, Adelaide, and Sydney, Australia
Journalist, Daily Newspaper, Dubbo, NSW, Australia
Teacher of Creative work, Dubbo, NSW, Australia
Entrepreneur
Author of 6 published books
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RECOGNITION
Love and War Emotions - Private Gallery
Love and War Emotions Rebirth - Private Gallery
Musical Moods – Private Gallery
Seeing Beyond – Private Gallery