early days

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My story starts like any artist, a creative kid who loved painting and doing anything “arty”.

During my high school years and teens, I dove right into anything that involved escaping. A fan of punk, goth and alternative music I was drawn to what it represented. I could be who I wanted to be with similar minded people, talking about our sadness, emotions and feeling free from society and what was expected of us.

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Travelling Europe and the UK for the good part of a year out of high school I started working and studying in makeup artistry and hairdressing. In the early nineties I fell into the skateboarding industry where I worked and helped create skateboard brands selling internationally and around Australia.

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Since then and the years to follow I started a new life connecting with who I am and what I love about life.

Art, being a mum and creating a life with my partner.

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Today, I paint almost everyday. To make art is truly valuable to me, it allows me to be me and express myself on canvas gifting me peace and self understanding.

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my style

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As an abstract expressionism artist, my paintings and artwork are based on emotion, they are pure and personal. They represent how I am feeling in the present time. I don’t have a plan; I paint from within and let the paintings evolve.  

 

Mainly painting on larger canvases my chosen medium is oils, oil sticks and mixed medium of hand stitching.

They are messy, moody and allow the viewer to connect and interpret as they see or feel.

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​When I paint, I am complete. Painting and all it brings is a comforting feeling for me. My artwork takes time, and many layers are applied. I'm not in a rush but more so to express and paint with every brush stroke; feeling, precision and care. 

 

​ahead of me

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Presently I am working on a new body of work which will be exhibited September 2026. This collection will be capturing my deeper emotional side of feelings we all keep hidden. It will be confronting and dark. An area that has been wanting me to express for some time.

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Earlier in 2025, I completed my studies as an Art Therapy Practitioner and I am now practicing from my studio in Currumbin, upstairs at Studio 8. ‘Breathing In Colour’ is a holistic based art therapy and is for you to get in touch with, express your own emotions in a safe space. Creating goals with a little guidance from me, you will work towards a more positive mind set. Think of it as journaling without words but through many art forms and finding answers from within.

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I also offer art sessions and selected art workshops in small intimate groups. The goal of these art sessions is to allow you to recapture your creativity that sometimes we lose when we are younger.

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You are creative, you have just forgotten how.