The beauty of the world often lies concealed behind a veil of familiarity, a veil of the everyday that
conceals the sublime nature of the world embedded in every rock and tree. Tasmania, with its richness
of colour and beauty, its deep rain forests, native fertility and bounty, its harsh bush, rugged mountains
contains a series of commonly experienced Australian landscape icons: tree-ferns, eucalyptus,
waterfalls and craggily mountains. I try to reveal what is sacred, nurturing and humane in all these
things.

Art can be an expression of desire.... View More »

The beauty of the world often lies concealed behind a veil of familiarity, a veil of the everyday that
conceals the sublime nature of the world embedded in every rock and tree. Tasmania, with its richness
of colour and beauty, its deep rain forests, native fertility and bounty, its harsh bush, rugged mountains
contains a series of commonly experienced Australian landscape icons: tree-ferns, eucalyptus,
waterfalls and craggily mountains. I try to reveal what is sacred, nurturing and humane in all these
things.

Art can be an expression of desire. In the case of landscape painting and photography it's the soul's desire to escape
the daily entrapments of the mind's concerns. The landscape is a metaphor for the soul's going forth.
It's not a matter of taking a picture or painting the place as it is; I try to depict the feeling of being in that place. I use the
landscape as a way to try to paint the feeling of being. The women in my paintings represent the spirit
of nature, of fertility, of growth. The women are fragile and the strong which mirrors the wilderness’s
fragility and beautiful strength.

For me, the process or act of creating should have at its core a contemplative, spiritual understanding
of the landscape, an understanding of nature. The act of creating is an act of learning. I want to create
an intimate relationship between the viewer and the subject. A relationship that also between Through
use of pose, body language and mood, I want to focus the viewer's gaze on the subject so that they
can allow themselves a pure emotional reaction that speaks as much of their own feelings and
experiences as of those they interpret in the subject they are regarding.

I would like to bring together in my painting, a number of aspects of the Tasmanian and Swedish landscape. The
desire to record elements of the living bush, the native plants and animals, with a representation of the
landscape that expresses the power and the mystery of primeval Tasmania. This is the Tasmania
landscape as it might have been, and as it still exists in those hidden places - deep in a hidden dark
forest or in the reality of a dream.

I have a bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania. «View Less

Work as a Photographer an Illustrator. I am also a Director of Photography.

The beauty of the world often lies concealed behind a veil of familiarity, a veil of the everyday that
conceals the sublime nature of the world embedded in every rock and tree. Tasmania, with its richness
of colour and beauty, its deep rain forests, native fertility and bounty, its harsh bush, rugged mountains
contains a series of commonly experienced Australian landscape icons: tree-ferns, eucalyptus,
waterfalls and craggily mountains. I try to reveal what is sacred, nurturing and humane in all these
things.

Art can be an expression of desire. In the case of landscape painting and photography it's the soul's desire to escape
the daily entrapments of the mind's concerns. The landscape is a metaphor for the soul's going forth.
It's not a matter of taking a picture or painting the place as it is; I try to depict the feeling of being in that place. I use the
landscape as a way to try to paint the feeling of being. The women in my paintings represent the spirit
of nature, of fertility, of growth. The women are fragile and the strong which mirrors the wilderness’s
fragility and beautiful strength.

For me, the process or act of creating should have at its core a contemplative, spiritual understanding
of the landscape, an understanding of nature. The act of creating is an act of learning. I want to create
an intimate relationship between the viewer and the subject. A relationship that also between Through
use of pose, body language and mood, I want to focus the viewer's gaze on the subject so that they
can allow themselves a pure emotional reaction that speaks as much of their own feelings and
experiences as of those they interpret in the subject they are regarding.

I would like to bring together in my painting, a number of aspects of the Tasmanian and Swedish landscape. The
desire to record elements of the living bush, the native plants and animals, with a representation of the
landscape that expresses the power and the mystery of primeval Tasmania. This is the Tasmania
landscape as it might have been, and as it still exists in those hidden places - deep in a hidden dark
forest or in the reality of a dream.

I have a bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania. «View Less