Résumé

Education

Education

Studied Art at Brighton Technical College, Fine Art Painting at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Costume Design for the Theatre at Perth Technical College.

Tutored by John Davis, George Baldessin, Fred Cress, Andrew Sibley, Geoff Stocks, Sandra Leveson, Peter Clarke, Patrick Moss, Cedric Flower and Rick Rowton.

Work Experience

Worked as Primary Art Teacher at Sacred Heart School Sandringham, Victoria.

Worked as Secondary Art Teacher at Bonbeach High School, Victoria.

Display Artist for the Festival of Perth.

Art Teacher at Brighton Art Society, Beaumaris Art Group, Cheltenham Art Group and Mentone – Mordialloc Art Group.  Also taught private students at Red Hill, Victoria.

Awards

1964 Winner of scholarship to study and work with Florence Broadhurst.

Best painting Brighton Art Society Show; judged by Dieter Prussner

Best Painting Beaumaris Art Group; judged by Helen Maudsley

Isabelle de Soyres Figure Drawing Award

Hodges Award

Winner of St Michael’s Uniting Church Melbourne Most Expressive Face Invitation Award.

2011 Finalist Walker Gallery, “She Who Loves” Exhibition

2012 Best Contemporary Painting, Brighton Art Society

2013 First Prize “Archibeau” Beaumaris Concourse

2013 Paintings selected to be included in International Contemporary Masters Vol. VIII a jury selected International Art Book (published in June 2014)

2014 Best Contemporary Painting, Brighton Art Society

2016 Best Contemporary Painting Mentone Mordialloc Art Group

2019 Best Contemporary Painting, Brighton Art Society

Numerous awards for acrylic, watercolour, gouache pastel and pencil.

Exhibitions

Eight solo exhibitions and many invitational and mixed exhibitions.

Have had five paintings selected for three Regional exhibitions at Bayside Regional Gallery.

Invitational exhibition at Monsalvat 2020

Personal View

Using my imagination and conveying the underlying emotions are the most important considerations when painting or drawing.

I find painting compulsive, delicious, calming and exciting!   It is also an ongoing source of intellectual and sensual pleasure.