This Adventure of Painting

I was born in Benalla, north east Victoria, but actually lived in a very isolated country area called Toobullup, near Tolmie. Our family moved to Benalla for a short time before moving to Thoona; my Dad running the Post Office. From there we moved to Meeniyan in South Gippsland. Both my parents came off the land and Dad had always wanted to raise poultry, so when the opportunity arose, he moved us back to the north east to live in Wangaratta, where he became a poultry farmer.

While living in the country, creativity was found in an age of self-sufficiency, and at an early age I learnt to sew and cook, and also watched and learned