Artist's Notes
- 13 September 2020
I was invited to participate in the Kedumba Drawing Award 2020. Below is my submitted statement.
When I look at a Casper David Friedrich landscape painting, there is a sense that both landscape and the figure within, are the best of friends - an endearing bond immortalised by Friedrich’s brush. That sense is the thing that I as an artist, yearns for as I sit and draw the landscape. To understand the challenges that the landscape throws in front of me, resolving the collaboration of light, depth, form and space, subtle interrogation motivates me to bring my friendship with the landscape closer.
- 02 November 2019
I was invited to participate in the Kedumba Drawing Award 2019. Below is my submitted statement.
Walking through a granite outcrop known as Evans Crown, I’m drawn toward a large bolder and a small tree. It’s an awkward relationship, a marriage arranged by chance, enacted by natures laws. The scattering of stones, broken limbs, conflict over time it seems.
- 16 December 2014
A visit to the Orange Regional Gallery early in December for the Kedumba group exhibition found my ’Sleep Series’ drawing wonderfully illuminated revealing the strong depth of colour and mark found within the drawing, elements that I consider to be important aspects in the drawings process.
- 03 November 2014
I was invited to participate in the Kedumba Drawing Award 2014 which is being held at the Wild Valley Gallery at Wentworth Falls until 16 November 2014 and travels to the Orange Regional Gallery from 28 November 2014 to 11 January 2015. The drawing is from the Sleep Series.
- 03 November 2014
The People's Choice Award, a small but no doubt significant award, was achieved at the 2014 Glebe Art Show. The work: a drawing of Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, was also sold and an additional drawing of the same area was commissioned. Many thanks to Tom at Glebe Picture Frames for the award, Nadia for the purchase of the work and Rodney and Lesley for the commission.
- 15 June 2014
4 May - 5 June 2014
This journey to the Flinders Ranges, SA was a drawing expedition aimed at what I consider an important part of the process of drawing, to simply enjoy and witness the changes of a landscape over an extended period of time, in this case being four weeks. It was an opportunity to do a small body of detailed drawings which allowed me to observe and endure the constantly changing light and weather patterns within an ancient and permanent landscape. A landscape that has been affected by volcanic and seismic activity but predominately by wind and water erosion.
- 01 June 2014
Success in winning the Pyrmont Art Prize 2014 during the month of May while I was drawing in the Flinders Ranges.
Many thanks to Wayne Nelson of PUCC/Pyrmont Festival, Lesley Dimmick of TAP Gallery and the judges for the award.
- 12 March 2014
Anandale Drawing Group
The Annandale Drawing Group was one of a number of studios open to the public throughout the Leichhard Open Studio Trail (LOST) for the weekend 8th and 9th of March 2014 as part of Art Month Sydney.
- 23 February 2014
I consider the theory of 'binary opposites' as an important platform for my drawing.
- 07 December 2013
A framed life drawing was donated and auctioned at a Glebe Society function to help raise much needed funds to continue its support for community projects and local schools.
- 09 October 2013
Blue Mountains Drawing Competition
The Draw on the Mountain competition was based on the completion of a 12 page A4 sketch pad with drawings of the Blue Mountains Area. The competition was an ideal opportunity to immerse myself in the mountains and draw this environment of wonderful expanse as well as intimate nature.
- 23 June 2013
What I consider to be a fundamental principle of 'nature' is the collaboration of its elements for its own survival.