My work is grounded in a lifelong relationship with land in Western New South Wales. I grew up on a sheep station near Bourke, where the landscape was part of everyday life, not something separate to observe. It was worked, relied upon, and understood through experience. That way of seeing continues to shape my practice.

I paint from sustained observation rather than dramatic interpretation. The country I return to is grazing land, open and weathered, shaped by flood, drought and management. Its changes are often subtle. A shift in soil tone across a fence line. The softening of a horizon in heat. The flat, quiet light of a claypan. These are the moments I’m drawn to.

Slowing down is central to how I work. Using restrained palettes and natural earth pigments, I explore landscape as surface, structure and atmosphere rather than as a literal depiction. I am interested in rhythm and repetition, in the quiet layers that sit beneath seasonal and generational change.

There is also a personal connection held within the work. The land I paint is the land I grew up on. It carries memory, labour and a sense of belonging. I approach it with restraint, not to romanticise it, but to reflect its continuity. What remains steady. What absorbs change. What endures.

My background in design informs how I think about scale, material and how work sits within a space. I want the paintings to bring a calm, grounding presence into interiors. Not decorative, but steady. A quiet connection to landscape.

At its core, my practice is about attentiveness. To place, to material, and to the enduring qualities of land that shape us over time.