I inherited a love of plants from both my botanist parents and have always had a keen interest in the visual arts. After a 30 year career playing Associate Principal Oboe with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra  I began lessons at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens with Dianne Emery and later enrolled at Jenny Phillips' Botanical Art School. I now devote my time to Botanic art in watercolour with a focus on Australian native plants.

 

In 2016 at The Art of Botanical Illustration exhibition I was awarded an Honourable Mention by Celia Rosser for three of my paintings.  I received another Honourable Mention in 2018 for my red poppy painting. This was also chosen as the 'hero' image to advertise the exhibition as was my agapanthus seed head in 2020.

 

The 2018 Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne calendar featured my Akane apples painting on the front cover and one of my paintings has been chosen to appear in these calendars every year since 2021.

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I held my first solo exhibition in 2019 at the Meeniyan Art Gallery and have since exhibited at several galleries in South Gippsland. I live in Korumburra where I have an extensive garden which provides  me with wonderful inspiration for my paintings.