Though I’ve briefly studied art at Julian Ashton Art School and TAFE, I think of myself more as a self-taught artist. My early studies allowed an insight to the foundations and practice of drawing but it was ongoing experimentation that led me to my current media, pyrography and natural pigments. I’ve been a practicing artist for 15 years now and my work has of course changed a lot over this time. The first few years were spent obsessively trying to master realism, from photorealism to surrealism. One thing that has remained fairly constant is my subject matter; my work is usually about the intricacies of nature and our place in it. Career highlights to date include being a finalist in the 2011 Salon des Refuses, a finalist in the 2010 Doug Moran Portrait Prize, winning the 2008 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize (Works on Paper) and being awarded a month long residency at Hill End, NSW in 2008. I was commissioned to produce a series of artworks for musician Osunlade’s 2011 album Pyrography, which including touring Europe with the works, and in 2009 I was selected to exhibit a solo show at SH Contemporary, Shanghai, China.