Tasmania has a wild and natural beauty about it, from the central highlands, lakes and mountains through to the moss covered rain forests then on to the rugged cliffs and white sands of it’s coast line. All of this I have tried to capture in my paintings. While travelling, I take photographs of scenes that interest me, at various locations; from around Launceston to Cradle Mountain and Lake St. Clair to the Gordon River and Bicheno on the east coast. I then work from these photographs  to bring them to life on a canvas. My interest is drawn to the different lightings and moods of the Tasmanian landscape, and I feel that I can create a reflection of these ideas in my paintings using a palette knife, where I can put down my vision in paint more closely and faster than by using a brush.