I am a multimedia artist living in Titirangi, Auckland. My work explores the preservation of memory through images — and how stories shift and transform each time they're told, painted, or photographed.

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My thirty-year practice moves between painting, photography, and digital composite work — three distinct ways of working that are in conversation with each other.

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My photography spans street, portrait and abstract work, and I am drawn to colour, light and form. I try to see familiar things in different ways — abstracting shapes from the ordinary, pulling the everyday out of context.

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My paintings are figurative and concerned with memory, storytelling and psychological landscapes — navigating the space between past and present, figure and ground. I work from found images and personal archives, using them as a point of departure rather than a fixed reference. My work draws on influences ranging from Matisse and Diebenkorn to Richard Lewer and Kaye Donachie.

 

Working in a variety of mediums including oil, acrylic, watercolour, Indian ink, drawing and collage, layering is essential to both my process and aesthetic — each layer altering and partially obscuring what came before, the story changing in the telling.

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My digital composites also work with layers — of painting, photography, or both combined. I explore how these elements blur and bleed into each other, creating a dreamlike distance, a sense of time passing or collapsing.

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I'm fascinated by the act of retelling — how an old photograph sparks a memory, how layering paint transforms what was there before, how colour shifts the tone and flavour of a story. The images I make are open-ended — each viewer brings their own interpretation, their own memory, completing the narrative in unique ways.

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