artapeutic
artapeutic
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Bio
Born in East Gippsland in 1968, I am a largely self taught artist.
Whilst I have always loved to draw and paint it is only in recent years that I have given any serious consideration to my art practice. A medical practitioner, I am privileged in my day to day work to share with people the highs and lows that life provides:
- the joy that attends the birth of a child
- the terror at voices where no-one can be seen
- the incomprehension of premature death
- the fear, anger and denial when serious disease makes its presence known
- the relief, too, at finally having an answer.
I find art is a useful tool to help me to explore, understand and to empathise with people's experiences - their reactions to self, to others and to the world around them. It enables me to see beauty in the everyday and in imperfection.
Other key influences are the built and natural environments: in particular I am drawn to the sea and boats (the daughter of a long line of sea-farers) and to industrial scenes that tell us much about the way we live today. A degree of abstraction seeks to remind us that we all see the same thing differently: our perceptions are distorted by our own experience, our mood, our biases.
Whilst still experimenting with style and technique, I like to paint with acrylic and tend to paint fast: often wet-on-wet, allowing the painting to emerge or declare itself as I go.
I am a member of the Beaumaris Art Group and a regular exhibitor at Kingston Arts Centre's ArtzBlitz exhibition.
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