“lush, ethereal planes of drifting colour and form…”
Andrew Harper, The Mercury
With a career spanning architecture, classical music and visual art, I am what you might call a serial creative. I have always experienced the world with amplified intensity, and whether on the building site, on stage, or in the studio, the purpose of my work remains the same: to craft beautiful, extraordinary moments that elevate the everyday.
For the last two decades, I have been creating artworks for a wide range of commercial clientele and private collectors. I approach every piece I create with gusto and watch it take shape with delight. My work tends to play with scale, combining ethereal, sweeping gestures with expanses of absorbing detail.
Recent exhibitions of my paintings have taken place at the Long Gallery at Salamanca Arts Centre, nipaluna/Hobart, and the Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain.
Thank you so much for taking an interest in my work! You can read a little more about the genesis of my painting technique below.
Zoë
A few years ago, I was tasked with re-drawing a faded map originally drafted by my great-grandfather, eminent architect K.H. McConnel. It was a meditative and meaningful process, and my hand particularly enjoyed tracing his mountain ranges, drawn in meandering tracks of tiny parallel dashes.
This technique stuck with me, and formed the genesis of how I paint landscapes. Each piece I paint begins with a single tramline of “beats”, as I call them, capturing the moment where land meets sky, or where lands meets water.
My great-grandfather’s strings of parallel mountain-lines are intuitively flipped from plan-view into elevation, and I repeat them over and over, allowing their rhythm to follow natural and imagined contours. When superimposed over a shifting, impressionistic backdrop, the landscape emerges.
