Showings

I commenced exhibiting in 2003 through group showings in local art competitions. In 2004 the Town of Cambridge selected two of my early artworks (001 Eternal Dance and 037 Sunset Yoga Cable Beach) for extended exhibition in their offices.

My artworks were on consignment to the Monsoon Gallery in Broome from 2003 to 2006.My first solo exhibition was at the Kings Hotel Art Café in 2005. My second exhibition was at the Old Bakery on 8th Gallery in 2007 and I also exhibited with Artists in Arms in 2007.

In 2008, I was invited to exhibit in the Old Bakery’s “Its About Time” show, the Tresillian Exhibition, the Cystic Fibrosis Art Show and the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Biennial Art Award.

In 2009, I exhibited at the invitational art awards held by City of Armadale (Minnawarra) and Arthritis Foundation.

In 2010, I was invited to exhibit at the Animal Art Award, the Arthritis WA Art Award and the Cystic Fibrosis Spring Rose Art Show.

In 2011, I was selected to exhibit at the Mandjar Art Award, the City of Wanneroo Art Award, the Spring Rose Art Show (Cystic Fibrosis WA) and the City of Swan Art Award.

In 2012, I held a mini-exhibition at Arthritis WA and was selected to exhibit at the Mandjar Art Award, the Spring Rose Art Show (Cystic Fibrosis WA) and the Arthritis Art Award. I also exhibited at the Victoria Park Art Awards and won the overall first prize.
To 2013 I was invited to exhibit at the Minnawarra Art Award and the Wanneroo Art Award, where Aussie Bus Stop was purchased for the City’s collection. The City of Belmont also purchased a piece called Side Show Alley. I also exhibited in the 2013 Mandjar and City of Melville Art Awards and was selected as an online exhibitor at the Lethbridge 10,000 national art award.

In 2014 I concentrated on private commissions and worked on the series Signs of the Times: Americana which translated the landscapes and iconic neon signage from a road trip in south western USA. I was one of 36 Western Australian artists invited to exhibit at the Deloitte Spring Rose Art Show 2014 where Signs of the Times: Americana #1-9 sold on the opening night. These pictures can be viewed in Gallery 2013 onwards. I then took a sabbatical from painting to work on other artistic endeavours.

In 2015 I was one of the artists featured in the Selected Works from the City of Melville Art Collection exhibition and feature in the 2016 Victoria Park Art Collection special exhibition.

In 2016 I commenced experimenting with other media and only exhibited at the Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Award 2016 where I was a gallery and online finalist for my first two works in the “21st Century Blues” series.


In 2017 I was one of sixty artists selected for the Artists of Perth publication produced by Gabi Mills and Lisa Shearon.

 
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As well as private buyers, my art has been purchased by the Kalbarri Resort, the Towns of Victoria Park and Vincent, the Cities of Wanneroo, Belmont and Melville, Kailis Bros, Capel Vale Wines and the National Lifestyle Villages for their collections.

Awards and Showings

2003 First Prize | Victoria Park Art Awards | UFO 21UFO 21100cm x 76cm
WINNER FIRST PRIZE VICTORIA PARK ART AWARDS 2003 - PRIVATE SALE 2003
Drivers licenses were obtainable at 21 years of age in the 1960s, and WA plate registrations began with the letter ‘U’. Three friends cruise down West Coast Highway at dusk during a hot summer.
Leaving Luna 2004
WINNER 2D AWARD HIGH COMMENDATION VICTORIA PARK ART AWARDS 2004 - PRIVATE SALE 2004
Perth’s Luna Park was situated at Scarborough Beach. As a child I remember the sounds of ocean and carnival fusing in the darkness. This image from the early 1960s depicts the strangeness of the lighting as people exit Luna Park at closing time on a rainy evening.
2006 High Commendation | Town of Cambridge Art Award | Hill Tara on Lake Monger
Hill Tara on Lake Monger, 2006
91cm x 91cm GIFT 2011
An urban landscape painting looking across Lake Monger to Grantham Street and Hill Tara in Wembley.
2006 John Hyde Award | Town of Vincent Art Award | Anzac Day at Axton Park
Anzac Day at Axford Park 2006
91cm x 91cm WINNER JOHN HYDE AWARD AT TOWN OF VINCENT ART AWARD 2006 – PURCHASED BY THE CITY OF VINCENT
A young girl comes forward in heavy rain to lay her tribute to the fallen on Anzac Day in the Mt Hawthorn 2006 ceremony. The images of the soldiers being honoured are reflected in the Memorials wet marble face.
2008 Best 2D picture | Victoria Park Art Awards | Girls Night Out
Girls Night Out 2008
92cm x 45cm WINNER BEST 2D PICTURE VICTORIA PARK ART AWARDS 2008 – PURCHASED BY PRIVATE BUYER
The ladies are having a night out to themselves. A waiter serves them drinks under the colourful lights of a nightclub bar.

2008 High Commendation – Canning Art Award 086 Two Virgins
Two Virgins (2007)
WINNER HIGH COMMENDATION CANNING ART AWARD 2008
Two young lovers caught up in the swirls of emotion that accompany a first romantic encounter with the opposite sex.
This painting is for sale. If you would like to purchase it please CONTACT me.

2010 Choice Award | Spring Rose Art Show (Cystic Fibrosis WA) | My Melancholia
My Melancholia 2008
124cm x 93cm WINNER CHOICE AWARD AT THE SPRING ROSE ART SHOW (CYSTIC FIBROSIS WA) 2010 – PURCHASED BY FRIENDLY SOCIETY CHEMISTS
A melancholic figure sits at the edge of the society, not interacting with it, but lost in its own thoughts. Troubled feelings flow off the body like clouds of vapour obscuring the landscape with their colour and intensity. A portrait of the malaise.

2010 High Commendation | Arthritis WA Art Exhibition | Betty’s Last Stop
Betty's Last Stop 2010
63cm x 78cm WINNER HIGH COMMENDATION ARTHRITIS WA ART EXHIBITION 2010 – SOLD TO PRIVATE BUYER
The final resting place of a grand old Ford pickup near Kalgoorlie is a metaphor for old age.

2011 Capel Vale Wines Award | Spring Rose Art Show(C F WA) 

Autumn of Wine and Roses 2011
105cm x 78cm WINNER CAPEL VALE WINES AWARD SPRING ROSE ART SHOW (CYSTIC FIBROSIS WA) 2011 – PURCHASED BY CAPEL VALE WINES
A happy scene of friends enjoying themselves at a local winery. The colours of Autumn radiate around the table in the sunlight.

2011 First prize | Arthritis WA Art Exhibition | Decree Nisi: Celebration & Reflection
WINNER FIRST PRIZE ARTHRITIS WA ART EXHIBITION 2011


2011 High Commendation | City of Wanneroo Art Awards | The Moon is a Ghostly Galleon
A literary allusion to the narrative poem The Highwayman (1906) by Alfred Noyes.
78cm x 78cm
This work is for sale. Please contact me if you would like to purchase it.


2012 First prize | Victoria Park Art Awards | Only The Lonely 2011
Purchased by the Town of Victoria Park
This picture represents the emotional state of mind of the outsider, the drifter, existing within the confines of the city. The figures of a man and his sole companion, a dog, drift through the emptiness of Perth’s Hay Street Mall.


2010 National Lifestyle Village Highly Commended |112 The Flying Mid-On (2010)
83cm x 78cm 
 PURCHASED BY PRIVATE BUYER
The great Australian summer pastime of beach cricket is a fun game played seriously.


2016 Lethbridge Gallery online finalist | 21st Century Blues #2: Guerrillas in the Midst (2015)
47cm x 47cm. 
 A comment on the current terror threat landscape in Australia.

2016 Lethbridge Gallery finalist | 21st Century Blues #1 The New Pandemic (2015).
In what has become highly recognised attire, the world’s ever vigilant medical professionals and volunteers spell out the threat of the planet’s new diseases.