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"Here i will attempt to make an artists statement, i feel that i am blessed to be an artist. It's my passion, and i feel i dont have a choice. Until i started studying art again a few years ago i felt like a part of me had died. Art is my anchor and stops me from going adrift. What I cant put it into words, I speak with my hands."

Influences: "When I was a kid I spent a lot of time on the street and at the skatepark. I found a band of misfits who are creative by nature. I was surrounded by art in many forms, as "low brow" as it may be. From silk screening our own T-shirts, collaging sticker collections, spray painting, skateboard graphics, scratching records, playing guitar even skateboarding itself is an art form. I have just finished my fine arts diploma at  northern beaches college of art and design and have learned to appreciate the traditional  methods as well, I will be continuing my studies  this year."

Other Influences are: "The old Masters, William Blake, Hans Makart, The Vienna Secession, Art Nouvou, Gustav Klimt,Art Brut, DaDa, Francis Picabia, Pop Art/Abstract expressionists, Yayoi Kusama, Issey Miyake, Henry Moore, Brett Whitely, Angelique Houtkamp, Liz Mcgrath, Kris Markovich, wk Interact, Joe Capobianco, Denis Clark,  Amamda West, Vanda Hudson, Pain, Kere Baker...the list goes on!"

Medium: "I do not consider myself "a painter" or  "a sculptor" I simply consider myself "an artist" which includes painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, printmaking and mixed media. I enjoy them all."

"And my heart bled within me, for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and fulfilment. You shall be free indeed when your days are without a want and a grief. but rather when things girdle your life and yet you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains with which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour. And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free? If it is an unjust law you would abolish,that law was written with your own hand upon your forehead. You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges,though you pore the sea upon them. And if it is a despot you would dethrone see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud,but for the tyranny in their own freedom and shame in their own pride? And if it is care that you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you. And if is fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared. Verily all things move within your being in a constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. These things move within you as light and shadows in pairs that cling.and when the shadow fades and is no more,the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light. And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself a fetter of a greater freedom."

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

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