To know where you’re going.
Is to know where you’ve been.
Art Education
Majored in art and photography.
- 1981 – Diploma of Arts – Alexander Mackie College of
Advanced Education - 1983 – Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies, Sydney College
of Advanced Education - 1984 – Bachelor of Visual Arts – City Art Institute
- 1985 – Emigrated to Canada
- 1985 – 89 – Taught art classes at the Burlington Culture Centre, Burlington,
Ontario ExhibitArt '86, Hamilton, Ontario,Canada (First prize with two
paintings); Burlington Cultural Centre, 18th AnnualJuried
Exhibition, Burlington, Ontario, Canada; CKOC/CKLH, 18th
Annual Arts Hamilton Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1987 - Burlington Fine Arts Association, 20th Anniversary Juried
Exhibition, Burlington, Ontario, Canada; CKOC/CKLH, 19th
Annual Arts Hamilton Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1988 - Salon Exhibition, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington,
Ontario, Canada; Stelco Arts '88 Juried Exhibition, Hamilton,
Ontario,Canada; Royal Botanical Gardens Exhibition,
Burlington, Ontario, Canada 1986-9 - privately commissioned
paintings in Ontario and British Columbia.
- 1990 – 1998 Opened and managed art gallery in Kimberley, British Columbia.
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
1983 – The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney 1984 – IBM (Australia) Limited, Sydney 1985 – EquitiLink (Australia) Limited, Sydney 1986 – Armadale Communications Limited, Hamilton, Ontario,Canada – permanent collection and travelling exhibition 1987 – Beckett & Dzubak Chartered Accountants, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 1988 – James Spencer private collection, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada 1991 – Key City Performing Arts Theatre, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988 – Perry Gallery, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington,
Ontario, Canada
1991 – Wooden Nickel Art Gallery, Kimberley, British Columbia,
Canada.
1992, 1993, 1994, 2000.
Off the Wall Fine Art Gallery, Cranbrook, British Columbia,
Canada, Kookaburra Lane Art Gallery, Kimberley, British
Columbia, Canada.
Now living and paints full-time on the island of Tasmania, Australia.
“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
– Henri Matisse