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I am an Australian-American artist living and working in Washington DC. My work explores the relationship between the organic and the synthetic through the deconstruction and abstraction of the world around us, often focusing on social, political and cultural issues. My philosophy concerns the impermanence of all things - how things grow, evolve and devolve by uncovering what is unseen, or hidden. By unveiling the secret messages found in all things, is, to me, emancipating and enlightening. My technique is varied and diverse. I prefer working with oil/oil pastels, acrylics, encaustics, charcoal and watercolors. My process over the last 20 years shows an obsession with layers - layers of opacity and transparency, layers of textures, layers of meaning. I attempt to paint the changing essence of subject matter, as seen through my own sociological lens. I try to find a voice that represents the fluctuating essence of my subjects. My ambition is to distill truth from evolving hidden meanings. My work has been exhibited throughout America and Australia. I keep a studio just outside of Washington DC.