The strong designs, beautiful colours and shapes inherent in flowers attract me to them as a subject for my paintings. Wherever flowers are, whether in their natural setting or inside set on a cloth on a table, I find them an evocative reminder to contemplate. The influence of our happy and independent rural lifestyle is evident in my work, and I hope empathy and praise show through in my subjects.

I count myself fortunate that for the last, nearly, four decades the creation of art has been the central focus of my professional life. During that time I journeyed from Art School student to commercial artist to fine artist in various media. The one thing that has remained a constant, however, is the ever-magical allure of the creative process. The very fact that it is all an illusion that germinates in the human imagination and culminates on a two dimensional surface is what makes it, in many ways, as real as life itself.