I’ve drawn and painted for almost as long as I can remember and always enjoyed it. After a solo exhibition of paintings in 1971 work and life intervened so that I was unable to spend much time painting again until some 10 to 15 years ago when I had more time to indulge what has remained a lifelong passion. I work within... Read More

I’ve drawn and painted for almost as long as I can remember and always enjoyed it. After a solo exhibition of paintings in 1971 work and life intervened so that I was unable to spend much time painting again until some 10 to 15 years ago when I had more time to indulge what has remained a lifelong passion. I work within the classical tradition, attempting to grasp the magic that light plays out as it affects different forms and surfaces and to re-present our surroundings in a way that makes us appreciate them differently – particularly in relation to their colour, form and vitality.

I work mostly in oils but also in charcoal and pencil with my main areas of interest being still life, portraiture, landscape and life drawing. Since I retired, I have been working as an artist. Prior to that I was senior lecturer in International Politics at Adelaide University specialising in Asian and particularly Chinese politics and economics. In the course of this work I undertook some twenty research trips to China and Taiwan and wrote a number of works primarily concerned with China’s efforts to modernise. Recent solo exhibitions have been at Kensington Gallery, Thousand Words Gallery, Prospect, Xanadu Gallery in Margaret River, WA and The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, with individual works in numerous RSASA and other exhibitions including the 2008 Waterhouse Exhibition at the SA Museum.