Images of Tasmania

I am so glad to be included in this year’s Images of Tasmania 2025.

I have been absent from the Art World for a while due to chronic back pains, but I am back. The subject of my 2 paintings is related to our beautiful Tasmanian fossils. What treasures we have here. I was so lucky to have Pat Giles as a friend. She showed me her collection of rocks and fossils she collected over many years.

She gave me a few pieces of them and from these 2 pieces I was inspired by the natural beauty and forms of shells encrusted with other natural sea creatures. We have a lot of hidden treasure in Tasmania.

To have something in your hands dated back years ago is so healing.

I am also very conscious of our life circle of the Ying and Yang, black and white, good and bad. I am concentrating on the NOW .