Category: Featuring Artist

Settling on the Coromandel Peninsula over 30 years ago, I’ve found much to spark creative inspiration in our beautiful environment. The land and seascapes, beaches, bush-clad hills, ever-changing light and striking coastline often feature in my work. Dinghies, caravans and old baches under ancient pōhutukawa have become central characters in many of my paintings, evoking a warm sense of nostalgia and playful wonder.

I have considered myself to be an artist my whole life. It’s been an interest ever since I could hold a pencil at two and a half years old, when mum showed me how to draw circles.

I have a huge passion for all art
and love, the euphoric energy
that comes from creating art that brings joy to someone.

A major part of my work is to deconstruct the limits of anthropocentrism in surrealism and symbolism as we know it. I also try to question society’s constructions such as the idea of gender.