I’m lucky enough to spend my time living as an artist. I’m influenced by those iconic Australian colours of blue skies, red dusty soil and hot summer days at the beach.

For many years I lived in the remote West Australian Goldfields and that wonderful landscape still features in my work. I’ve spent time in the Pilbara region of Western Australia living in the small town of Cossack, where walking on the mangrove flats I became captivated by the marks and patterns left in the sand by the outgoing tide. Those patterns continue to inspire the abstract work in my paintings and ceramics.

My fantasy paintings of children and their dogs playing in the outstretched limbs of boab trees come from my time in Broome. More recently I’ve discovered the Bungle Bungle Range out from Kununurra. Days spent walking through those unique sandstone towers has inspired new work — and I can’t wait to get back there.