Black & Blue Painting

Born in 1979 and raised in Papua New Guinea, I have been painting for fun all my life and love expressing myself through colour. I studied Visual Art and Photography after finishing high school in Toowoomba and continued in the workforce in several areas of the arts including gallery work, art supplies convening, workshop co-ordinator, photographer and picture framer. In the last 7 years I’ve delved into my own art a little more seriously. I paint large scale, expressive, acrylic paintings of cows, elephants and more recently birds. My fascination with birds came from my childhood in PNG surrounded by beautiful toucans, cockatoos, parrots, hornbills, birds of paradise and many others. I find the amazing feathers, beaks, claws and quirky behaviours of birds intriguing. The finished pieces are colourful, splashy, bold dripping paintings. I’ll always paint birds as they’ve become a customary part of my artistic vocabulary now.