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After months of removals, painting, decorating and construction, I finally settled in my new studio - the double garage of our new home! What a change from a little laundry!

The Open Bite Printmakers admitted me into their ranks in March. Formed in 1992, the group consists of around 30 members and exhibits a diverse range of very high quality works.​​

A busy year. I started submitting works to local art prizes and was pleased to make it into four finals. My monotype Deep in the Bush was commended in the printmaking catergory of Ewart Prize.

The Other Art Fair Sydney was my biggest artistic undertaking yet. It was a lot of work but great fun and experience. I really appreciated being visited by lots of family, friends and church family.

Trying to do life drawings using the monotype process is hard! However, by the end of the year I was able to enter a small number of works in an exhibition at the Willoughby Arts Centre. 

I set up my website and found a wonderful, second-hand etching press advertised on an international Facebook group but selling just around the corner! 

Returning to printmaking, I re-discovered the simplicity of monotypes and converted our laundry into a printmaking workshop.

After 13 years practising the art of parenting I decided to give acrylic painting and life drawing a go with mixed results.  

My work Ambiguity was acquired in an acquisitive exhibition, was commended in the TAFE NSW Art Prize and went on an extensive tour of regional galleries throughout New South Wales.

I started another two-year course at The Gallery School, Meadowbank un the tutelage of New Hanks.

I held my first solo exhibition - no fancy gallery - just the walls around our house. It was great fun catching up with family and friends and trying to explain the etching and aquatint process!

I started a two-year printmaking course at Hornsby TAFE under the tutelage of Bruce Latimer and Gary Shinfield.

I signed up for an introductory printmaking course at the Willoughby Arts Centre with Meike Cohen shortly after emigrating from Northern Ireland. I was soon hooked!

I've always loved watercolours but being colour blind doesn't help! The highlight of this foray was a week's course on the beautiful Achill Island on the west coast of Ireland.

I got back into drawing 13 years after having last done it at school. I really enjoying sketching the lovely old architecture of Spain during the 8 years I lived there.

Art was always my best subject as a schoolboy. I won 25 pounds and a silver trophy in a Northern Ireland schools poster competition. I didn't get to keep the trophy or, as it turns out, my hair!