My inspiration is from everything around me as well as what goes on between my ears, which is a lot.
I work 10 hours a day drawing, I never run out of things to draw.
Because of mental health issues after Art school I was unable to make art. If I did my art was very dark, depressive works.
I have found some sort of enlightenment in the last couple of years and am able to find beauty in everything. Not that there are not dark and scary elements, there art but I’m not stuck to one depressive theme like I used to. I started drawing native birds which people really loved, I then went on to landscapes, images of scenery around me. Then scenery and birds. Then dogs and other animals. At same time practicing people, until recently me works have been a kelidescope of images real and made up juxtaposed into a dance or happy composition. I also do works that are serious, uncomfortable and scary. Like ‘leave that kid alone’ a dreamscape remembering childhood abuse
‘Can’t breath’ which is about animals bred to suffocate and the human equivalent.
Or ‘psychiatrist’ which shows a psychiatrist that obviously needs just as much help as the patient.
Mostly my urban bird series are my most popular drawings, which is great because I I love drawing them. Rainbow lorikeets and black cockatoos are my favourites as them visit me on my balcony.
I am also in the process of writing a picture book for adults.
It is 130 drawing about my life, talking about everything from being a kid, to abuse, to train wreck of a life leading recently to love and recovery. It is LGBT themed and written for other sufferers of abuse, trauma. Mental health, other women, professionals and parents of kids big and small. I hope you follow my journey to publish it.
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