BIO / CV Art  

I reside in a retirement village at present and will be checking out the villages where more care can be put in place. 

I grew up in a very neighbour-like suburb in Wembley and started drawing birds for fellow school students at 6 years of age (now 65yrs ago) where hospital bed bound for some 6 years.

Some years later while moving forward in the Bachelor of Nursing at University, part of the course was made up of art based units. The lecturer uncovered a God-given talent for a distinctive abstract impressionistic style using mediums of acrylic and oil paints, acrylic paint pens, permenent markers, gauche paints, ceramics and sculpture, and water colours.

A passion for depicting all creatures of humanity, great and small from earth bound to the air and sea in the style of imagination fed by art therapy while many times a patient in mental health institutions - with nature in all its glory with vivid colours shining through.

After entering art competitions in recent years, the following have shown success including: Finalist in the Brisbane Rotary Art Competition in Brisbane 2023 where a person of a well-known Australian outback fashion label purchased one piece, finalist in the Rockingham Art Exhibition and selling two pieces, finalist and gaining an award of Honourable Mention in the City of Life Competition April 2023 by TEN MOIR (USA). A commission of Blue Wrens on Wood (acrylic paint, sand texture, and acrylic and marker pens) is now completed and awaiting dispatch to Queensland.

In closing, mental health and its foibles will not win by stopping imagination - only feed it!!!!!