I often think about lineage, about what we inherit and what we build for ourselves. I look for clues in the work of other artists, making connections that help me understand where my own practice might sit.

This search is personal and artistic. My own history feels fragmented, without a clear sense of direction or continuity. Painting has become a way of building something steady and deliberate. When I paint, I feel like I am carving out a small lineage of my own. I am drawing from the artists and landscape who came before me. In this way, painting becomes both an inheritance and an act of construction: a way of understanding where I come from, and of slowly shaping where I might be going.

Many of my paintings return to trees and fragments of landscape. Trees have become my metaphor for lineage: structures that grow slowly, forming connections between ground, time and place. The landscapes I paint are often small pockets of nature found within the city, spaces where something organic persists within an otherwise constructed environment.

In the studio I’m interested in how images are built. A painting begins with observation but gradually becomes something constructed through colour, rhythm and memory. In this way the paintings reflect a broader fascination with how people construct identity and meaning in their lives.

I hold a Bachelor of Design with Honours (Swinburne University) and a Master of Education (Melbourne University). I have exhibited at Rubicon ARI, Forty Five Downstairs and have been a finalist in Glover Landscape Prize. I have created public artworks for the city of Booroondara and held Artist in Residence positions at Strathcona Grammar School for consecutive years.

Alongside my painting practice I work as a tutor and Clinical Educator at the University of Melbourne, working with Pre-Service Teachers. Education and teaching is deeply important to me, I have always had a strong connection to ‘School’ as a place of stability and routine, and I have a strong sense of purpose as a teacher working with wonderful humans as they develop their own teaching practice. It is a way of contributing to something larger than myself, helping others build knowledge, confidence and direction in their own lives.

Both teaching and painting feel like acts of construction: ways of creating structure, continuity and meaning over time.