Born Melbourne 1973. "Nature is my perspective, inspiration and muse. I have a passion for the littoral. Where the reef meets the tropical rainforest. Where mountains swell up from the sea and where the abundance of nature bursts into flower and birdsong. This passion has led me to the rainforests of Cape Tribulation FNQ, Buderim Queensland, Bali Lombok and the Gillis Indonesia, Vietnam and the South Pacific. Corals, mangroves, swamps, forests, ferneries, epiphytes and orchids encourage my entire palette and blast it with colour and life. My paintings grow as the forest does. Sometimes as a vine, organically twisting and turning in linear black enamel to forge a leafy path. Sometimes as a vapour of shocking colour as an inflorescence. Or as a drip spill of ink that rolls down to show the height of a canopy. A pallet of blazing sunset skies and aqua seas and drenching rain, these are the shapes, colours and forms that shape my art."