Exhibitions:

1998 - DADAACT Exhibition at Strathnairn - some eggs accompanied by framed prints of the pictures I had used on the surface of the eggs."

 

Statement :

It was not until June 1996, that I began to develop my current means of expression which combines digital art and decoupage. I draw pictures using Adobe Photoshop supplemented by extra filters and using fractal generation programs and a fractal landscape generating program off the internet. Most of my images use fractals in some way. They cover a wide range of alien, fantastic or mythical beings and landscapes which, now that I can no longer travel physically, enables me to pursue the interest I have always had in travelling and exploring different places. This has certainly changed my own life greatly in that I enjoy it so much and it has encouraged me to try new means of expression.

I have recently begun to use these images to decoupage the surfaces of eggs which I make from plaster, using the shells of chicken, duck, goose, peacock, and any other type of egg I can get hold of as moulds. I also use easter egg moulds and polystyrene eggs but prefer real egg shapes. I finish the eggs off with up to 100 layers of varnish and, after sanding, with beeswax.

I am currently also working on decoupage paintings. I have started to do papier mache sculpture at the Canberra School of Art as a means of broadening my artistic activities.