Unlike many of my fellow artists, I cannot say I have been drawing or painting since my early childhood. And I wasn’t born with instant talent either! How I paint today is the result of learning and practicing for about 13 years. What I can say is that I have always been somewhat creative. Before picking up a paintbrush, I was a keen potter in the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah. I was also sewing my own clothes, learning screen printing and photography. As a child, I saw my parents being creative too; dad produced artworks with wax crayons and also pencil drawings and mum did silk painting, doll making
