Art Gallery

I know it sounds dramatic but I used to not take photos and destroy my paintings soon after making them.

At the Athens School of Fine Art, Effie  was a life model that had seen generations of art students go through the school.

I love this large charcoal sketch for its dramatic light and shade effects.

I had a crush on this model, can you tell?

When I look at my early painting studies I’m reminded of how much colour I saw.

The correction from my professor remains on her right shoulder. Training in Greece was humbling and life changing.

My 8 summers in Greece were mostly spent on my island of Corfu working as a freelance portrait artist in the town square.

On Hydra, no cars are allowed on the island, only taxi boats and the donkeys can be heard

My grandmother lived in Corfu in the famous Liston, a multi storey building built in 1807 by the French during the Napoleonic period.

Two young students, rebels, activists, lovers, pose in front of the Polytechnic, the building in the heart of Athens that housed my art school

This work is from the first solo show I staged in Melbourne after leaving my ‘newly established career as an art therapist.

A good example of my love of colour

My earlier sculptures did not hang on walls and I was more interested in them being totem and doll-like.

Opposites balancing:  the sleeping baby and the one with eyes on mother, the conscious and unconscious, sun and moon, shadow and light.

I invited the owners of this painting to write something about it instead of me:

Not long before I embarked on creating the artworks for this exhibition, I had returned from a life changing trip to India.

This painting was the start of my fascination with the Greek Renaissance love story: EROTOKRITOS

By this time my sculptures began to have more movement and were designed to hang on walls.

This was the first time I had painted on a black canvas.

  It is made up of shapes derived from found objects, wire, fabric, cardboard and canvas.

In this exhibition I experimented with developing a narrative by alternating between creating a painting and then a sculpture.

The Floating Starman is at ease in his cosmic playground.

At the close of the exhibition this painting featured in, I became curious about whether the girl was’ running away from’ or ‘running towards’something

With newfound strength and courage she climbed onto the lion and heads into the forest, leaving the castel behind her..

STORYTELLING and TIME represented by a fantastical bird holding an hour glass in its beak..

Once upon a time, there was a girl ,who looked up at the sky a lot…’  An ode to the things we see that make us believe there is more to discover…

All knowing, majestic and at peace in her world.

  “He held safe in his branches all the wishes of the heart that belonged to the people who passed through the forest…

She wanted to be friends with the river mermaid who a long time ago had lost her way and fell asleep in the fresh waters…

This majestic tree reaches out to the galaxies more than any of the others..

MY LARGEST STAR TREE, This painting is part of my Constellation Landscape series.

This is a portrait of John Parkinson,the owner of the ‘Priscilla’ bus that was used in the iconic Australian movie ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’.  

“They were an unlikely pair as they flew in different dimensions of space…”

Knowing where she came from made new discoveries ever fresh

Effortlessly once a year the answers emerge from deep within

She flew North to a collector while Fairy Man stayed South with a  Melbourne art lover.

The winds always carried messages to the fisherman and early that morning they spoke of a special bounty

“The King and Queen of the seas, sitting on their thrones, clasped their hands together to look into the Fisherman’s heart, to see if it was pure and true”

The mermaid has just asked to be given legs so she can explore the Earth with her fisherman…

..and so it came to be, that he met a mermaid and it was love at first sight for both of them…

..just at that moment, a giant, beautiful dolphin lept out. She now took her three steps into the water and climbed onto the dolphin’s back

A person comes to the Wishing Tree  holding in his hands his two most precious wishes..

This Instrument Maker is all about the hands, the ones that bend and flex and move to play;

“From within the brushes of green-blue paint, that BAGLAMA from the behind the museum’s glass cabinet, came forth with striking clarity…”

So many artworks from this exhibition Id like to share in the Gallery, including wall sculptures. For now, one more painting. The smallest and most unique of the collection THE ORCHESTRA

A musician from antiquity and one from the present each sit at a table. What role did women play in the writing of music’s history and Greece’s cultural map?

The bouzouki is a prized possession, a beautiful object and a symbol of virtuosity and ‘leventia’ (fearlessness-gallantry)