A country girl from Yorkshire, I taught Special Needs in UK before migrating to WA with my young family in 1988, and running our Gidgegannup farm and goat dairy. Retiring from farming enabled me to study art, belatedly, through TAFE and OUA, and to combine my two passions – Art and Nature – into a useful working whole.
I have refined my practice into two streams… I work in pencil and watercolour for my detailed botanical and wildlife studies, and in oils for my larger statement pieces. All my work is based on the inhabitants of my home range, in Albany WA.
By portraying the fragile beauty of our world alongside the global extinction crisis decimating our native species and our local eco-systems, I aim to spotlight exactly what we are losing. Inertia, complacency, and the overall lack of political will, is costing us dearly as a species. Through my art, I am aiming to help provoke every one of us into taking direct, personal action to ensure a sustainable and ecologically balanced future for ourselves and our planet.
As the founding member of Down South Arts and Crafts Collective Inc., I now have a permanent outlet for my work… The Collective has leased a store – 86 Stirling Terrace Albany (next to Dylans Cafe) – which we run between us on a Roster system. The store is open every day, from 10am to 4pm.
