8th Feb - 5th March
Opening 11th Feb 6 - 8pm
I’d visited many galleries over the years and sometimes thought ‘I could do that’ but not done anything about it. One day my wife slammed down a copy of the Adelaide WEA brochure and pointed out the ‘Acrylics for Beginners’ course saying, ‘Go and do this or just stop talking about it’. And that was the start of my painting career in 2007.
I began with acrylics but very soon moved to oils as my main medium. I enjoy creating ‘quirky statements on life’ as a way of provoking people to think, to see differently, consider cause and effect and maybe be amused. I also enjoy painting people and animals. I have started sculpting using clay and soft stone, which takes me back to my childhood days of playing with plasticine.
I am largely self-taught via magazines and occasional workshops. I pick up tips all the time from fellow artists and lots of You Tube clips.
In Adelaide I have exhibited in several public exhibitions and am a Fellow of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts. I produced a 2015 Calendar of Viet Nam as a fundraiser for the SA Vietnam Charity Group. I was also commissioned to paint a mural which was installed in the Bahn Mi Vietnamese Café, Grenfell Plaza, Adelaide CBD.
When I moved to Hamilton Vic, I joined art groups both in Hamilton and Dunkeld and exhibited in the Rotary Art Show, Mud Gallery, Café 109 and Koopmans and several other sites in both the Glenelg and Southern Grampians Shires.
Since moving to Warrnambool in March 2022, I have joined the Warrnambool Art Gallery, F Project and WADAS. I have exhibited several times through WADAS.
I had a piece published in the Artist Palette Magazine, Issue No.107 which included an article and demonstration piece of the work ‘Card Sharks’.
This is my first Solo Exhibition, showing the diversity of my work which reflects ‘A Slice of Life’ as seen through my eyes. Life that is not just a series of ‘pretty pictures’ but rather weird, quirky, amusing, challenging and rarely straight forward. My perspective, different to yours and maybe many others but, a slice of life from where I sit.
