Artist's Back to Basics

Crayon on Lounge Room Wall

Drawing and painting has always interested me. My first masterpiece as a two-year-old entitled ‘Crayon on Lounge Room Wall’ (which earned me a rather unexpected prize), would lead to less destructive experiments with different mediums and varying results throughout my primary and high school years.

Not long after Cyclone Tracy, I moved to Darwin to begin my first job as a sign-writing apprentice.

After standing on planks all week in the hot sun, most weekends were spent ‘down the track’ for swimming and camping trips by the river. On one such trip, I awoke one morning to a glorious sunrise skimming the tops of mangroves

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