About Me
Art in many mediums, has been a passion and hobby to me whilst I raised four children and working a dairy farm on the Mid North Coast. My artworks depict my life with nature and wildflowers and wildlife that surround me that I love, from the coast to the waterfalls of Dorrigo and beyond to the Liverpool Ranges where I grew up.
I don’t have a preferred medium but enjoy painting with folk art style with acrylic paint, to leadlight and mosaic glass work to kiln fired glass and jewellery making and have been known to mix mediums to create individual artwork. I am presently trying my hand at lapidary work with gems and minerals, and fossicking. I had a lesson in ceramic and clay potter and hope to follow with further lessons in pottery one day. Always something to learn and enjoy.
When I first moved to the Mid North Coast, to help with the family farm, I took a trip to the old Butter Factory at Bellingen and saw Annie James give a demonstration of folk-art painting. I loved it straight away and I joined and spent a few years there painting and selling my artwork in her shop and the markets. I did a class with Chris Roy from the Central Coast and a few other classes from prominent artists, travelling through.
I then drifted to leadlight glass classes with Christine Stewart and learnt the love of leadlight and then progressed to mosaic which was a good way to rid of surplus scrap pieces of glass. An American fired glass artist, Jan Schneider was doing guest classes whilst travelling through Australia. She carried my first jewellery kiln over with her from America and I still use it today to make some dichroic jewellery with.
I have enjoyed joining my sisters in art exhibits over the years. Over the last few years our area has been going through some very difficult times with the drought, then bushfires surrounded our farm, then came the floods and constant rain to keep the pastures mud. So although my art has been on the backburner, I hope you enjoy my work and follow me on my journey of new discoveries.