Having grown up in the Wairarapa, we moved to Wellington when I was fifteen, where I have remained off and on since. I started doing art when I left school, first as an adult student at Wellington High school, then for a year at Canterbury University. Later on I studied Graphic Design at Wellington Polytechnic, specialising in illustration.

I have been interested in the past few years in using blocks of colour and drawing over the top in line, incorporating drawing into painting. But I quite like paint to look as though it is paint.

On a recent trip overseas, the paintings I enjoyed the most were small miniatures from Holland done in the fourteenth century for their use of colour, Impressionist work, as well as the work of De Kooing.

I use a lot of different media including paintin, photography, papier mache, printmaking, as well as graphic design. One thing in common to most of them is drawing, which I find I enjoy most, as it is quite relaxing.

I am more interested in the feeling of a painting or drawing rather than its concept. I feel that meaning and theory have dominated art too much recently. Art to me is like music, where the music I like the most is something so enjoyable and comfortable, that you can fall asleep with.

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