Aged 18, freed of parental restraints and armed with a small allowance, she dared to live her ambitions and artistic career in 20th century Europe.  Adding to the list... she created her own family and her own balance.

In words:

"Pursuing an art is not just a matter of finding the time-it is a matter of being a free spirit to bring it on..."

My exhibition "Interiority" aims to provide glimpses of the juxtaposition that exists when woman marries art and the chaotic, frantic challenge to create.

My paintings are personal reflections of the inherent change, movement and growth of an artist, lover and mother.

A sometimes selfish union...the metamorphosis of past and present.

A visually fused mass of line, composition and colour.

In my work I mix oil stick, acrylic and enamel to create depth and luminosity. I choose to retain a certain sequence and a certain correctness in placing my tones to remain reasonable to my subject, be it figurative or still life. I don't mind so much whether my colour corresponds exactly, as long as it looks as beautiful or as powerful or as suggestive on my paper as it does in real life.

I sometimes think the colour spectrum is not large enough in one medium to create the image you want, so I like to extend the possibilities of media. That's where Pollocks notion of "the educated dribble" comes in to play.

Colour can dance with a level of realism and surrealism when light pulsates and the painting begins to vibrate....never what you could call "still-life".

People often say to me "they're bright!"

I've come to believe the rich and flamboyant use of colour and intensities, often disturbs peoples sensibilities.

I consider my style to be distinctly Australian, in part because I was born here and because of the subject matter. I paint what appeals to my sense of aesthetics and beauty, incorporating family heirlooms, objects and some times cryptic symbolism's of self.

My sense of familiarity...

My sense of belonging.

My history in visual form.

Mirror images of who is and what was.

I believe, when we lose sight of history and fail to acknowledge the journey, then we lose a sense of who we are.

In essence my work is one of pictorial journalism. Underlying all of my paintings is a feeling for my subject that some may consider insubstantial, but on my part intentionally executed, with I believe an incisive wit and willfulness of line. All in their entirety are points of departure, daring flights into the life of aesthetic ideas. "An impossible independence."

I'd like to end with a quote from William Morris whose firm Morris&Co defined Victorian interior design.

"If u want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it.... have nothing in your houses that u do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

So on that note :

I'd like to thank the BAC for the opportunity to be here and there tireless behind the scenes support.

Welcome to Interiority, a lyrical overtone of the subtle balance of one female artists' existence in a sometimes stark, sometimes volatile and forever domestic world.