I believe that we, as people, are shaped primarily by the places we get to see and experience, how we feel at the time and often what music we are listening to. This is me sharing my appreciation for that.

 

My main goal with landscape and aviation painting is to master the craft of perspective and the aspect of light. Painting allows me to express an emotion of smallness and insignificance when amongst nature, especially when in the mountains. Along with this, it helps me to enjoy reminiscing on past travel and to relive and recapture how it felt to be in specific places. 

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Having started out with acrylics and portraiture, my focus is primarily now on landscape and aviation painting, using oil. Along with this, a portion of my process is reliant on photography, which I thoroughly enjoy as a hobby despite having a very basic skillset. 

 

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I take my main inspiration from the ancient land of New Zealand, following multiple vacations there and a summer I spent living in Queenstown. I am also deeply inspired by Lord Howe Island. Lord Howe feels like one of the last frontiers, and I have not experienced any emotion the same as looking up at Mt Gower and Mt Lidgbird since the two trips I took there in 2022 and 2023. I simply find the shape of the mountains so inspiring. 

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My HSC major work, completed in August 2023, consisted of 5 artworks of WWII Airplanes, which then went on to be exhibited in the Art-North exhibition at the Cossington-Smith Gallery: View the Exhibition catalogue here or find them in my Gallery here.

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