Artist's Back to Basics

A Bond with the Bush

I was born of an Australian mother and an English father in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. My father was stationed in Darwin during the latter stages of World War Two with his Spitfire squadron. He met my mother and they married in Broken Hill before returning to England at the end of the war (as dad was still in the RAF).

We came to Australia in 1949 and settled in Broken Hill where

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