One of the most common things people say about my art, particularly my pointillism, is 'how do you have the patience!?' Good question. It started out with a lot of frustration, small pieces that didn't take too long and a whole lot of expletives when I got fed up with dotting for the fifth hour in a row. But, as with all things, practice makes perfect. After a few years of slowly attempting larger and larger pieces that took longer and longer, I found that dotting became a ca

A new situation arose recently and it took me both by surprise and near-dismay. I had a request via my etsy store to sell an electronic copy of one of my artworks. It was a piece called The Wandering Aengus, a script artwork of William Butler Yeats' poem. My first response was 'absolutely!' A sale through Etsy is always a good thing, it means the shop is working and of course it's a confidence boost. But then I got nervous. If I provided an electronic copy of one of my artwor

I only started calling myself a 'Visual Artist' this year, not because I only became one this year - I've been practicing for a long time now - but because up until recently I didn't know what it actually mean to BE a visual artist. To be honest I'm not sure I really know now. At first I thought the title could only be given to those with some sort of Visual Arts degree - a piece of paper that says you're qualified. And then I thought, maybe it's if you are picked up by a gal

Where? I was born in Adelaide, Australia, and have lived in WA, VIC, NSW and QLD. Most of my growing up was done in country NSW on a property for my late childhood and then in Brisbane for my teen to adult years. How did the art start? Our property was probably one of the most influential parts of my life and my practice as an artist. I was taught from a very young age to value the natural world and to find wonder in small intricacies. My father studied biology and botany and