My Bio
I have been creating art my whole life and have delved into many different media over that time including painting, drawing, photography and textile art. My training in science, which has broadened my naturally enquiring mind, gives me an interest in the technicalities of print.
It was during a conversation with a mentor at The Learning Connexion in 2007 that I became aware of print. In the summer of 2008 I joined PCANZ (Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand), and went to a Summer School. I was hooked! I was so excited that I didn't sleep for nights as I tried to digest all that I had seen and heard during the days.
I have since then tried all sorts of different forms of printmaking but have recently settled on reduction linocuts as my thing. I am excited by the endless possibilities that one piece of lino provides as it is progressively inked and cut away, each time developing more of the finished image. I have done an edition of 45 but my preferred edition size is small, and I like to make the edition variable to create more challenges and interest during the process.
I have exhibited widely in New Zealand and had work selected for exhibitions in Spain, Japan, USA and UK.
I live in Taupo, 360m above sea level on the northern shore of Lake Taupo, overlooked by Mt Tauhara, an extinct volcano. Lake Taupo was formed by the collapse of a volcano, creating a caldera which gradually filled to form the lake.
When I interviewed in London before coming to NZ in 1975 I was asked where I would like to live. I didn't know anyone in NZ but from somewhere deep inside I heard myself say “near the volcanoes and not too far from the sea”. That conversation came back to me many years later after moving to Taupo in 1987. While I was working on ideas for an exhibition entitled ‘My Place’ my words came back to me after many moons in the subconscious.
Exhibitions
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2024 Perceptions - diverse voices in print
Taupo Museum & Art Gallery
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2024 Artful Minds
Lava Glass, Taupo
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2024 The Expanded Field of Print PCANZ (selected exhibition)
NorthArt, Auckland
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2023 Celebration PCANZ selected exhibition
Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History
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2023 Artful Minds (group exhibition)
Lava Glass, Taupo
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2022 Impressions (group exhibition)
Taupo Museum & Art Gallery
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2022 Artful Squared (group exhibition)
Artful Minds at Lava Glass Taupo
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2019 Progression (joint exhibition with Marita Green)
Taupo Museum & Art Gallery
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2019 Nine square inches (selected exhibition)
Manhattan Graphics Centre New York
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2017 At The Margins (joint exhibition)
PCANZ & Aberystwyth Printmakers
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2017 Mini Print Exhibition
Cadaques, Spain
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2017 Awagami Small Print (selected exhibition)
Japan
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2016 Exhibition of Hope (group exhibition)
Taupo Hospice
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2014 Devil in the Detail (PCANZ exhibition)
Lysaght Watt Gallery, Hawera
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2014 Antipodes (PCANZ combined print exhibition)
Sydney and Auckland
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2014 Connections (group exhibition)
Taupo Museum & Art Gallery
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2013 In the Frame (PCANZ selected exhibition)
Artspost Hamilton