Artistic Approach:

I am a passionate watercolourist and a member of the New Zealand Botanical Art Society and the New Zealand Watercolour Artists Society.

I have always loved playing with colour, as long as I can remember I had crayons, felt pens, pastels and coloured pencils, always colouring in big jumbo colour in books as a child but never very good. I admired watercolours and always fascinated with the subtle and washy effects but it was only at age 40 that I finally picked up a brush and started to dabble with watercolour. I picked some pansies out of the garden, did a basic sketch and my journey and fascination with watercolour began.

Mother nature is my inspiration from which I will never tire and botanicals are my specialty but I also love to paint animals, birds and babies, the possibilities are endless! Please get in touch if you are interested in owning a unique watercolour painted with love!

Affiliations:

Botanical Art Society of New Zealand
Watercolour New Zealand

Education:

I completed the Newcastle University EDx course  Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration 101 in 2016

Exhibitions:

2024

August - ‘Winter to Spring’ - Auckland Botanic Gardens

2022

'Botanica' - Welcome Swallow Gallery, Hamilton

'The Art of Healing - Medicine, Myth and Magic' - Auckland Botanic Gardens

2021

May - ‘For the Love Of Botanical’ - Space Studio and Gallery, Whanganui

2020

‘The Big Show of Little Botanical Works 2020’ - BASNZ members exhibition, Auckland Botanic Gardens

‘Creativity Unlocked’ - Friends of the Auckland Botanic Gardens art group

2019

‘Botanica 18’ - BASNZ members exhibition, Chambers Gallery, Rangiora

2018

‘Botanica 19’ - BASNZ members exhibition, The Pumphouse,  Akaroa