As a visual artist I experience my environment through, not only my eyes, but all my senses. I love to play with details and collect ephemera. On a personal level creating art is my act of worship, experiencing the grace and glory of God.
In my work for several exhibitions, I was influenced by bush renewal after fire, as well as personal memories and history represented in vintage books, old doilies, and sheet music. When I observe destruction or decay in the world, I also see beauty. Artist and writer Makoto Fujimura wrote: “Beauty is a gratuitous gift of the creator God; it finds its source and its purpose in God’s character. God, out of his gratuitous love, created a world he did not need because he is an artist.”
Along with seeking to portray the beauty of our Blue Mountains landscape, my desire is to encourage you, the viewer, to look carefully at all the detail in the landscape we see every day, as painter Degas said, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see”.
“Pink from ashes (rocky)” Lino print, hand coloured on rice paper with pink chine collé, 610/790mm Framed SOLD
“Lindsay's walk” Watercolour on cyanotype 450/370mm framed (SOLD)
“Sonata VI” W/c on monoprint on vintage sheet music 470/630 mm framed (SOLD)
MOMENTS OBSERVED
“Bushfire ephemera” Nestled basket of handmade papers & burnt ephemera $50 (front)
“Old and New” Concertina, book of ephemera, cyanotype on pages of my Grandad's book $65. (behind)
