About me......A short Bio

Born into sunshiny Queensland Australia as a ginger child is a challenge. I spent much of my youth cowering from the sun under large hats or umbrellas hissing at my golden skinned siblings like a jealous cat. But when I wasn't hiding from UV I was following my dancer parents to the gay club where they sometimes performed alongside drag queens in amazing feathered head-dresses and watching them practice. It was amazing. Talk about incredible. I think this was the beginning of my love affair with colour and patterns. Even the red velour booths and carpet are still clear in my mind (along with the smell of stale cigarette smoke from the night before).

As I grew up I kept drawing and drawing. It carried me through the depressing friendless years of high school into my homeless wanderer phase and out the other end. When I left home at 16, telling my Mother proudly that I had left school 'to become an Artist', I took a sarong filled with clothes and sleeping bag and about $20 and traveled to Melbourne but somehow ended up in the sleepy town of Bairnsdale on a strangers living room floor listening to Leonard Cohen and as usual drawing. From there I made my way from town to town..... Hobart, Launceston, Under a tarpaulin at a Rainbow festival in a valley I have no idea where, Blue Mountains, Sydney and eventually back to Brisbane at age 18. By the time I came back I had honed my skills on countless lost sketch pads, rave flyers and the occasional flouro banner.

It was not quite as I had imagined it.....

At age 19 I became a single teen Mother, so I took out my piercings, grew out my hair from the mo-hawk and got back to school post haste. I did not, however, stop drawing.

12 years later and I draw more than ever and have had several exhibitions and sold many works. I am continuing my love affair with patterns and colour and working towards more exhibitions with my ever-evolving work.

I guess I can tell my Mother that I did exactly as I said I would and did indeed become an Artist. Thank you 16 year old me for believing in me.