When I draw or paint, I feel complete, connected and certain that I am doing what I am meant to be doing in a way that no other form of creativity engenders.

As a child I did not have things to draw with and art was not part of my primary school curriculum until I was 10. Then my enlightened teacher gave us experiences of drawing in different mediums and I came alive to the possibility of what I could do.

It was a mystery then as it is now - full of portent and possibility and extremely satisfying. It led me beyond myself and extended the ways I thought about the world and myself and most importantly it allowed me to dream.

By the time I was 12, I was painting in watercolours at every opportunity. I remember sitting with my paint set and paper in the shearing shed and making marks between clearing away the wool while my dad was crutching the sheep.

This fitting art around other more necessary life activities is the way my practice has evolved over many years.

Life and the necessity of making a living to support myself and my children led me to become a Steiner teacher. Supporting children to learn through an art focussed primary education enabled me to develop a fluency to enhance my understanding of what art does to form and shape the developing consciousness of the human being.

In 1980 I completed a Diploma of Fine Art at the Newnham TAFE College in Launceston, Tasmania. I moved to Sydney in 1982 and completed a postgraduate year at Sydney College of the Arts and then a year of study at Parsifal College – a private anthroposophical college.

I began teaching in Steiner schools in 1984. A Bachelor of Education in art at the University of Sydney completed before moving to the Far North Coast of NSW.

My art practices and my spiritual practices have always been inter-related. While I’ve used a wide variety of two and three - dimensional media, my main focus has been on drawing and painting.

Drawing is for me a form of meditative activity in which profound thoughts and questions arise. As a young child I acutely observed the natural world around me and drew and painted what I saw. By the time I was 18, these landscapes had become fully abstracted.

In 2013 I created an art installation as part of my Honours research project. Out of this immersive durational participatory experience emerged the desire to undertake further research into movement based experiences to enhance spiritual perception.

This contemplative enquiry continues to absorb and delight me into investigations of sensory perception and the possibilities of developing spiritual perception.

In 2017 I built myself a studio on my rural property overlooking a lagoon. I am now able to devote myself full-time to my art practice in this beautiful space.