Past Exhibitions

“My work is often centred around still life and the collection of works chosen for this show offer a breadth of my practice over the last few years. Painting reference books, favourite novels, bouquets of native flowers from the Flinders General Store (in “Coastal Bouquet”), buddleja, gum leaves from my garden on our farm are painted in glass jars or favourite jugs.

Driving into Flinders from either direction in Summer I am greeted by windblown swathes of grasses meeting the azure blue of the sea. All these colours and textures I try to capture in my work.

The title for this show is also a nod to the sudden passing of my father in law in the middle of this year, not long after he gifted our family 1500 daffodil bulbs to plant in our paddock. Of course, the plants got battered by wind, rain and kangaroos this year and only a few bloomed but the hope is that in the future, especially once the bulbs multiply that they will become a field of flowers like the ones he used to pick and sell in his roadside florists’ stall in his younger years.”