'Moonlit Bushfire' Painting

I live in Melbourne, Australia, where I studied Fine Art, majoring in painting and printmaking. Initially influenced by JMW Turner and the Australian Impressionists, I have been painting and exhibiting atmospheric landscapes for over 40 years, and won awards both in Australia and overseas. My artistic career began at 16 when I attended life drawing classes in the 1960s at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne with John Brack and Ian Armstrong. I have worked as a graphic artist, art reviewer and arts writer contributor for various publications, including ‘The Melbourne Times’ and ‘Imprint’ magazine. In the 1980s, I was manager of an antique print gallery, ‘l’estampe originale’, in Hawthorn, and lectured in art history at the Melbourne CAE. Later I worked in web design and art marketing, but now paint full-time. Highlights of my career include a 2022 12-month artist’s residency with the Bayside Gallery, being awarded the Silver Medal for Painting at the 2015 Florence Biennale, and winning the Gagliardi Gallery Award at the London Art Biennale in 2021.