History:
I was
born in Sydney, Australia in 1954.
My earliest memory relating to art, is drawing huge Disney characters
on my bedroom wall, and in retrospect, I'm surprised and grateful that
my parents allowed me do it.
I settled in Melbourne in 1974 where
I took up my vocation with fervour and began painting full time and improving
what skills I had.
By 1980 I
was represented in the first of several exhibitions.
In the following years I became
interested in involving the viewer more directly in my paintings. I realized
that there was a direct mathematical correlation between a viewpoint and
the objects in a painting which eventually led to my developing formulas
for application with perspective, and also computer software
to accommodate them.
In 1988 I began working in affiliation
with Fresco Site Specific Art, painting trompe l'oeil murals. It was an
easy transition because my interest in perspective was directly applicable
to trompe l'oeil.
Painting them with oils was too expensive, so I began using acrylic paint
and an airbrush.
I moved to South Australia in 1991, and continued to paint murals and some fine art until I became ill enough in 2004 to re-evaluate what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Luckily I survived and I decided to give up painting murals and have since been painting canvases for exhibition.
I now live in Tasmania with my wife and child, and continue to paint oil paintings and exhibit in Melbourne.
I have never had any formal training and acquired most of my knowledge from observation, experimentation and trial and error, as well as studying books about perspective, light and mathematics.
I approached learning to paint with one main aim; to refine my technique enough to be able to create a realistic representation of anything that I may imagine or dream.