2008
Advanced Diploma in
Art and Creativity
The Learning Connexion

1989
Diploma in Visual Communication Design
Wellington Polytechnic

Nelson Suter Art Society
Working Member

The Suter Art Gallery
Friend

New Zealand Academy of
Fine Arts
Exhibiting Member

Mapua Art Group
Group Organiser

Artist Alliance

Tasman Visual Art Group

Just over thirty years ago I arrived in New Zealand as the small-child component of an English family. My first impressions were of a powerful and exciting land, and I soon began expressing myself through art and design at school in Wellington. Straight out of college I embarked on a three-year Diploma in Visual Communication Design at Wellington Polytechnic. My career, as a graphic designer, started very well and soon I was running my own successful business.

By 2005 I was ready for more artistic challenges and decided to down-size my business to concentrate on painting. I began exhibiting regularly and in 2007 won the Landscape/Seascape section of the Nelson Regional Art Awards. In January 2012 I completed a two-year full time Master of Fine Arts Postgraduate Degree at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in Auckland.

My painting style has evolved from landscapes to contemporary and evocative expressions of urban wanderings.

dealer galleries

Black Asterisk Gallery
10 Ponsonby Road
Ponsonby
Auckland

Red Gallery
1 Bridge Street, Nelson

Kereru Gallery
3 Wood Loop Road, Mariri
(off highway 60)
Tasman