I am a painter and writer living on Phillip Island.

After losing confidence at art teacher training college, I didn't paint for 40 years. I left secondary school teaching to pursue my interest in writing and literature, gained a PhD in English and ended up teaching Media and Communications at Monash University. Early in my retirement, encouraged by the tutor of a watercolour painting class, I regained my confidence and rediscovered my love of painting. I returned to acrylics and began exhibiting my work in 2009. I’ve since exhibited at a number of Melbourne and Gippsland art galleries.

My painting style incorporates elements of figuration and abstraction; vibrant colour and a hard edge technique. My formative influences include the Post Impressionists; the simplicity and bold design of Japanese woodcuts and the organic, flowing line of Art Nouveau. My subject matter includes portraits, seascapes and more recently, iconic Melbourne buildings and structures. The migration series which I began in 2015, was inspired by my parents' stories concerning our migration by sea in the 1950s and was developed in response to the ANL Maritime Award theme 'Humanity's Relationship with the Sea'.

After winning a number of awards in local exhibitions, I began entering national award exhibitions and have been selected as a finalist in some of these, including the Portia Geach Memorial Award (2017); the ANL Maritime Award (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019,2020, 2021); the Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize (2020) and the Omnia Art Prize (2025).

I am represented by Sol Gallery, Fitzroy where I have held two successful solo exhibitions.