Highlights

Born:                           Gayndah, Queensland on 18 April 1915

 

Died:                           Gold Coast, Queensland in July 1988

 

Training:  

  • Royal Art Society of New South Wales Art School,
  • Henry Hanke and Alan Hansen, 1965/68 in Landscape and Portraiture, Graeme Inson Studio, Sydney,
  • Meldrum tonal principles 1968/69,
  • painted professionally from 1970

 

Style:                           Representational

 

Medium:                         Oil

 

Exhibitions: 

Single artist 

  • Beaulieu Gallery, Sydney 1971
  • Design Arts Centre, Brisbane 1972
  • Mavis Chapman Gallery, Sydney 1981
  • Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney 1984 and 1987

Mixed

  • Royal Queensland Art Society
  • Bergin Galleries, Gold Coast
  • Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne
  • Galloway Gallery, Brisbane
  • Hope Gallery, Brisbane
  • Linton Gallery, Toowoomba
  • Southlands Gallery, ACT
  • De’Lisle Gallery, Broadbeach
  • Terrace Gallery, Sydney
  • Royal Easter Show in Sydney
  • Rotary Camberwell, Melbourne
  • Royal National Show, Brisbane
  • Gold Coast Art Prize

 

Exhibiting Member of:

  • Royal Art Society of NSW from 1967
  • Royal Brisbane Art Society, Brisbane from 1971
  • Australian Guild of Realist Artists (Melbourne) from 1975

 

Special Interests:                               

  • Australian Heritage Buildings and city scapes
  • Australian Rural Homesteads and mountain landscapes
  • Emphasis on transitional effects of intense light

 

Appointments:    

  • Member of the Gold Coast Cultural Centre Trust
  • Past President of the Cultural Centre Association, GC
  • Member of the Gold Coast City Art Prize Acquisition Society

 

Represented:      

  • National Collection, Canberra 1975
  • Parliament House, Brisbane 1978
  • Regional Collections, Rockhampton, Ipswich and Gold Coast
  • Queensland National Trust
  • Thai Royal Palace, Bangkok
  • Others – CSR Co; IEL; BORAL; Sebel Town House, Sydney; William Angliss & Co; Channel 4, Wollongong; Deucher Bank, Sydney; National Australia Bank, Gold Coast, ANZ Bank, Brisbane and Queensland Newspapers.