My life began in 1966 at Auburn District Hospital. I grew up in north-western Sydney at Baulkham Hills – which was a semi-rural area at the time.
We had no artists in my family; nor did I know of any. When I was a child my parents would take my sisters and I to visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales occasionally … but I noticed that most of the artists were dead and so believed that there were no practicing artists left.
Deciding to be an artist at the age of 10, I resolved myself to the fact that I would become a commercial artist. And (impossible as it seems) it wasn’t until I began some study in Fine Arts at Meadowbank TAFE at the age of 21 that I discovered some artists were alive and thriving in our communities.
