I love the unique vivid colours of the Australian landscape; the strong earthy smells after 
a tropical rain downpour; the constant cacophony of bird and bush and ocean sounds; 
and the assaulting, almost-blinding light. To try and capture this Australian rawness 
and brilliance that I am so captivated by, I like to use strong brush strokes 
and bright primary colours (usually acrylics and mixed media), particularly 
oranges and blues, on my canvases.

I’m a self-taught artist and children’s book illustrator. I’ve illustrated and drawn one 
thing or another for most of my life, following in a long line of several generations 
of published figurative artists in my family. Oils, watercolours, detailed pencil 
drawings, lithographs and detailed life drawings, feature in my early works. 
My new direction however is abstract expressionism and I enjoy 
passionately experimenting with new painterly techniques that 
create textures and layers. A carpenter in a former life, I also 
love construction art and creating site-specific works for unique 
Corporate environments

I was an artist-in-residence at The Quarry in Whangarei, New Zealand before coming to 
live in Australia, where I organised and ran art courses, life drawing groups and drawing 
courses for special-needs students. I knew I would always return to live here after 
climbing the magical Uluru some twenty years ago when I was an exchange 
student (from boarding school in Scotland). I originally grew up in Sri Lanka 
and find travelling creatively and artistically inspiring for my artwork. Last 
year I spent two months in France, following one of my Life’s dreams 
to see the Mona Lisa; along with art galleries exhibiting works by 
Picasso in the small southern town of Ceret, and also 
Van Gogh’s Auvers-sur-Oise.

‘I am very much influenced by Australia’s contemporary art master, Brett Whitely, 
whose passion in paint continues to inspire me long after his death. Overseas 
influences include Jackson Pollock; and Van Gogh for their passion to try 
something new and controversial in their time’.






Many of my works centre around the chance, serendipitous connections we make 
in life and with each other, and how the smallest movement can affect the 
journey of something or someone else, often intensely, in the Universe.






Works such as: ‘Alchemy’; ‘Chaos Theory’; and ‘Butterfly Effect’ explore these notions 
with few artistic constraints. When Life is left to chance, the spirit is truly liberated. 
Where does the last dribble of paint dribble to? What journey does a painting 
taken from tin to canvas on to someone’s wall?…and what happens to it 
next?The journey of a work    continues…affecting someone else’s life.
I strongly believe everything in Life has its own journey, even 
supposedly inanimate objects that have had a life-force 
painted into them at a moment in time.








I recently participated in a group exhibition ‘Emerge’, at Central Plaza One, and my 
next exhibitions include the Ascot Art Gallery in August/September and also 
Neo Gallery in December. The most fun I ever had doing art though 
were the traffic signal boxes in Brisbane!

My artistic journey continues…with a Life force all its own!

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