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.
