Margaret Woodward, a wonderful Australian artist, makes a statement that reflects well how I feel about my practice as an artist:

“ A person’s art, is at the very least a reflection of their life and mind … and represents the references and connections, which that individual is capable of making … whether we like it or not: …. One’s stories and understandings and all the linked references which belong to life find their way into the work.” *

My work is the result of the physical and emotional response to the immediate environment. I respond, internalise, analyse and encapsulate my personal reality on to canvas. The energy and immediacy of this response is seen in the use of gesture, colour, placement and line or marks on the surface. I associate and revel in my world both in the physical and philosophical sense.

*Margaret Woodward, catalogue for exhibition “Inside Looking Out”, Parramatta Heritage Centre 2003, p28


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