PAINTING
FINALIST IN
Northern Beaches Gallery Summer Art Prize (2024)
Ewart Art Prize (2024)
Lane Cove Art Award (2024, 2023)
‘Small Packages’, Sherbrooke Art Gallery, Victoria (2024)
Westfield Shopping Centre (Hornsby) Exhibition (2024)
Art @ The Rowers, Mosman Rowers (2024)
Women in Art, AAD Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney (2024)
‘Summer Exhibition Art Prize’, Northern Beaches Gallery (2023)
Hunters Hill Art Exhibition (2023)
Artists of Mosman: 2088 at Mosman Art Gallery (2023, 2021)
Wingecarribee Prize for Landscape Art at Bowral Art Gallery (2023, 2021)
Biblio Art Prize at Blarney Books & Art, Victoria (2022)
‘Tender’ at White Rhino Artspace (2022)
8 x 10 Exhibition at Corner Store Gallery, Orange (2020)
John Copes Watercolour Prize at Bowral Art Gallery (2019)
9 x 5 Art Prize at Yarramalong Valley Spring Festival (2019)
Hornsby Art Prize (2018)
AWARDS
Commended - CASS ‘Art at The Royal’ (2024)
Highly Commended - Northern Beaches Art Society’s Annual Awards Exhibition (2024)
Winner – ‘Small Packages’ (Tea/Leaf Challenge), Sherbrooke Art Gallery, Victoia (2024)
Highly Commended – Ku-ring-gai Art Society’s Awards Exhibition (2024)
Highly Commended – Drummoyne Art Society’s Annual Open Art Awards Exhibition (2024)
Commended – artXtra!, Lane Cove Art Society (2024)
Highly Commended – Sydney Royal Easter Show, Portraits category (2024)
Hangers’ Prize – Hornsby Art Society Volunteers’ Exhibition (2024)
Highly Commended – ‘Inner Wheel Charity Art Prize’, Gallery 109 (2023)
Commended – Drummoyne Art Society’s Members’ Exhibition (2023)
Commended – Australian Society of Miniature Art Annual Awards Exhibition (2023)
Commended – Drummoyne Art Society’s Annual Open Art Awards Exhibition (2023)
Runner-up, Water-based paintings – Hornsby Art Society’s Members’ Exhibition (2022)
Curator’s Pick – ‘Art in the Mountains’ (Combined Art Societies of Sydney) at Gallery ONE88, Katoomba (2022)
Winner – Member for Bradfield Art Prize (Ku-ring-gai Art Society) (2021)
Gold – Landscapes/Buildings/Seascapes in ‘Small and Precious’, Australian Society of Miniature Art (Tas) Annual Awards Exhibition (2020)
Commended – ‘Watercolour’ in Ryde Art Society’s Annual Exhibition (2019)
Honorable Mention in ‘Paint your pet’, Northern Beaches Watercolour (2019)
First – ‘Watercolour: Animals/Birds’ at St Ives Show (2016)
Commended – ‘Watercolour: Landscape’ at St Ives Show (2016)
SOLO SHOWS
‘Anthophilia’ at Marie-France, West Pymble (2024)
‘Near and Far’ at Marie-France, West Pymble (2023)
‘From Parkes to Paris’ at The Village Kitchen, Kurrajong (2022)
‘Local Gems’ at Marie-France, West Pymble (2022)
‘Chattels’ at Savills, Lindfield (2022)
‘Postcards from Paris’ at Marie-France, West Pymble (2021)
‘Gone West’ at The Village Kitchen, Kurrajong (2021)
‘Shared Spaces’ at Sous le Soleil, Roseville (2020)
SMALL GROUP SHOWS (organised by Nina)
Open Studio (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018)
‘Creatives Connect at The Cottage’, Brooklyn (7 artists, 2023)
‘Embrace’ at Gallery Lane Cove (8 artists, 2023)
‘Shared Spaces’ at Be Brave Artspace, Avalon (5 artists, 2019)
‘First by 4’ at Balmain Watch House, Balmain (4 artists, 2017)
MEMBERSHIPS
Australian Society of Miniature Art (NSW) (from 2018)
Combined Art Societies of Sydney (from 2019)
Drummoyne Art Society (from 2023)
Hornsby Art Society (from 2019)
Ku-ring-gai Art Society (from 2019)
Lane Cove Art Society (from 2021)
Northern Beaches Art Society (from 2023)
Willoughby Arts Centre (from 2024)
I exhibit with each of these societies at every opportunity.
GENERAL
2024 Invited to join Mensa Australia
2019–present Artist
2011–19 Watercolour classes with Vicki Ratcliff, Mona Vale
2000–02 Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing & Editing, Macquarie University, North Ryde
1999–2019 Freelance editor (subediting, proofreading)
1999 Subeditor at Express Publications, Silverwater
1994–99 Book Editor at CCH Australia, North Ryde
1993–94 Freelance graphic designer and calligrapher
1987–93 Graphic Designer, Playbill, Pymble
1987 Diploma in Graphic Art & Design, School of Visual Art, East Sydney
1984–87 Book Editor at CCH Australia, North Ryde
1981–83 Diploma of Teaching (Primary), Ku-ring-gai College of Advanced Education, Lindfield