I began producing pastel drawings of Australian landscape when I was working as an Arts Advisory teacher in the Kimberley from1983 to 1985. My job involved travelling around the Kimberley so when I could I took the opportunity to draw landscape where I was staying. When we moved south, I continued driving to places around Western Australia where I looked for and drew interesting compositions on Arches A2 paper. I exhibited these pastel drawings as the Way Out West Series and in 2012 I produced a book of the series.
My most recent body of work has been a series of nine large pastel drawings on Arches A1 paper, titled Big Wide Land which were first exhibited at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery in February 2020 and then at the Artgeo Gallery in Busselton in August 2020. I am currently working on a commission of the Ragged Range on Arches A1 paper. I plan to continue my dialogue with the Australian landscape by producing a series of pastel drawings on A3 and A4 pastel paper of scenes from around the state.
I work out of my Red Dirt Arts Studio at our house in Shadforth in Denmark. I am open daily from 9.00am – 5pm.
