Initially an Art Teacher in the UK with Primary, Secondary and Remedial students, I deviated into Sales and Marketing before emigrating to Australia in 1985.
Although always involved with life drawing, the scope of my artwork dramatically developed on my return to Australia after some 4 years in the Philippines. Since then I have exhibited extensively , and as a Finalist in major State Awards
My practice, as a mixed media artist, is based on the Sunshine Coast .
2018 Finalist in International 'Figurative Art' Competition
'Special Merit Award
'Special Recognition Award'
Finalist Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Selected for Art of the Body exhibition(2 works)
Finalist International ‘All Women Art’Competition
'Special Merit Award’
'Special Recognition Award’
2017 Finalist All Women Global Competition
'Special Merit Award'
and selected for 'Special Recognition' in Mixed Media
Finalist ‘Rio Tinto Alcan Awards’ (2 works)
Finalist International ’Seascapes’ Competition
6th in top 10 Overall Winning Artists
3rd in Painting Category
‘Special Merit Award’
Winner 'Kenilworth Kaleidoscope Award'
Finalist International 'Figurative' Competition
'Special Merit Award'
Finalist Moreton Bay Art Awards
Finalist MacGregor Lions Art Extravaganza
Finalist Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular
Finalist All Women Global Competition
'Special Merit Award'
Selected for 'Special Recognition' in Painting
Additional Exhibitions
Gympie Rush
Kenilwirth Artsfest
Nundah Now
50 years of loving Landsborough
(Commissioned by Sunshine Coast Regional Council to produce an artwork celebrating the above theme . )
QRAA 'Iconic Queensland'
Somerset Art Awards
Mackay Art on Show
'Artist of the Month April' Kilcoy Courthouse Gallery
Ongoing at Altitude Montville
Noosa Regional Gallery 'Taste of Art'
2016 Finalist ‘Rio Tinto Alcan Awards’ (2 works)
Finalist ‘Fishers Ghost Art Award’
Finalist International ‘’Seasons’ Competition
‘Special Merit Award’
Finalist Local Artist, Local Content
Finalist Brisbane Art Prize
Invited to participate Florence Biennale 2017
Finalist Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Awards
Finalist Moreton Bay Art Awards
Invited to exhibit at MacGregor Lions Art Extravaganza
Finalist Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular
Finalist Noosa Art Award
Finalist All Woman Art Global Competition
' Special Merit Award'
Additional Exhibitions
Ongoing at Altitude Montville
‘Presenting Kilcoy’ The Condensary Regional Galllery
‘Here and There’ with Imbil Village Artists
‘Christmas and beyond’ Mary Valley Artslink
‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ at Vianta
Gympie Rush Competition
Kenilworth Art Prize
“Colours of Queensland” Queensland Flying Arts
“Jazz,Shiraz & pretty little Things” Bloomhill Cancer Fundraiser
“Each to their own” The Condensary Regional Gallery
Kilcoy Gallery group exhibition
Glen Rock Gallery group exhibition
2015 Finalist All Women Global Competition LST Online Gallery
Selected for the Special Merit Category
Selected for the Special Recognition Category
Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Exhibition
Additional Exhibitions
Vianta "A little piece of the sun"
Mary Valley Artslink Christmas Exhibition
' Fine Art,Jazz and Shiraz' Bloomhill Cancer Fundraiser
Gold Rush Art Competition (HC in Miniatures)
Kenilworth Celebrates
Queensland Flying Arts online "Cream of the Crop'
Somerset Art Awards (2nd and HC in ContemporarySection)
Vianta 'Hinterland Alive'
Macgregor Lions Art Extravagaza by invitation
2014 Finalist Moreton Bay Region Art Awards 3D
Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Exhibition
Finalist Noosa Art Award (H.C)
Finalist Kenilworth Art Prize
Finalist Rio Tinto Alcan
Additional Exhibitions
Noosa Regional Gallery ’Taste of Art’
Pine Rivers Gallery "Contemporary Wearables"
Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Brisbane Institute of Art "Beneath the Skin" (touring)
Gympie Regional Gallery "Beneath the Skin"(touring)
Pine Rivers Gallery "Flights of Fancy"
2013 Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Exhibition
Exhibitions Rosebed Street Gallery “Minutiae”
Sheffield International Artists Book Prize , UK
Noosa Regional Gallery 'Taste of Art"
Tweed River Regional Gallery 'CPM National Print Awards'
Rosebed Street Gallery' Roses Of Rosebed"
Mary Valley Art Festival( First in Drawing and HC in Landscape)
2012 Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize (2 works)
Finalist Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Finalist Kenilworth Art Prize
Additional Exhibitions
Stanthorpe Art Prize
Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Just Nudes
Friends of Noosa Regional Gallery
Kenilworth Art Prize
Rosebed Street Gallery 'Small Town/Small Works'
2011 Awarded a Sunshine Coast Council & Arts Queensland RADF Career Development Grant
Finalist Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Exhibitions Moreton Bay Region Art Award
Open Studios 2011-Working Artist at Booroobin Studio
Maryborough Art Festival
Gympie Regional Gallery Gold Rush Art Competition
2010 Finalist Moreton Bay Region Awards
Finalist RASGO Open National Art Awards (Commended)
Open Studios 2010-Working Artist at Maleny Arts Retreat
Exhibitions Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Immanuel Lutheran Art Awards
Maleny Art Awards
Maryborough Art Festival (Highly Commended )
Open Studios 2010-Working Artist at Maleny Arts Retreat
Kenilworth Celebrates
RASGO Open National Art Awards
Gympie Regional Gallery Gold Rush Art Competitio
Belle Arti Chapman & Bailey Art Awards
2009 Finalist Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Finalist Warwick Art Prize
Finalist Kenilworth Art Prize (Mayors Prize)
Exhibitions Moreton Bay Region Art Awards
Immanuel Lutheran Art Awards
Maleny Art Awards
Maryborough Art Festival
COMA
Zonta Women in Art
“Yes Minister” Gallery 419 RQAS
“Linear Journey” Maleny Upfront Club
Warwick Art Prize
Kenilworth Art PrizwKenilworth Celebrates
Gympie Regional Gallery Gold Rush Art Competition
2008 Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize Finalist
Warwick Art Prize (2 works)
COMA….artwork reproduced as a Maleny postcard
Murgon Rotary Art Show (First in Abstract)
Exhibitions Stanthorpe Art Prize
Warwick Art Prize
art Brisbane 08,off the wall
Immanuel Lutheran Art Awards
COMA
Maleny Art Awards
Zonta Women in Art
Maryborough Art Festival
Crowne Plaza Pelican Waters
Kenilworth Celebrates
Art of the Body
Murgon Rotary Art Show
Gympie Regional Gallery Gold Rush Art Competition COMA
‘ Eg’ Gallery Nona BIA
D’Arcy Doyle Art Awards
2007 Zonta 07( Peoples Choice Award)
Exhibitions COMA
Maleny Art Awards
Zonta Women in Art
Maryborough Art Festival
l Kenilworth Celebrates Maryboroug
Art of the Body
Gympie Regional Gallery Gold Rush competition