Artist Biography

These oil paintings exhibit a minimal and cool colour palette on a small scale. Some spaces occupy people while others don’t, they merely display human life settings or situations. Where the objects and space are left to do the talking. The people are reflective of everyday life. They are the inhabitants of their spaces. The reduced palette offers contemplative mood like ambience. Where gathering thoughts is welcome and reflecting on our senses and experience is too.

The suggestion of rugs, wine and paintings creates warmth to help compensate for this hostile world we live in. these are small things that make life bearable. They are an indirect way of creating warmth. The idea of a social occasion is simply enough. The paintings are largely cool colours but fill these spaces with our warm ideas, whereas the people in the paintings recede with distant motives indulging in their own spaces.

I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Griffith University in 2017, since then I have had two group exhibitions and two solo exhibitions including “Too Human” and “Forlorn Vulture.” I was awarded a book prize from QAGOMA for best presentation at the graduation (Griffith university), I was also awarded best oil painting at the Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular in 2019. My practise involves comparing the complexities in painting with social engagements. Some of my influences stem from the post-impressionists and cubist periods, artists like Paul Cezanne and George Braque. Also, Australian Artist such as Kevin Lincoln, John Brack and Russell Drysdale have been a major influence on my practise.