The Nude and the Reclining Nude

With The Nude and the Reclining Nude, the eyes search the texture and the smoothness of the body, it expresses its presence in the space it occupies.

Animals

My love of animals, especially dogs, has let me see their individual personalities coming out through their look and feelings of love, as they express themselves in the space that they occupy.

Disciplines

I have been painting for some time and have explored the nude and landscapes around us in colour and texture. I have also been sculpting for a few years and in this discipline, I am interested in how the body occupies space. The artist’s marks are also something I am interested in expressing in my work.

Negative and Positive Space

The negative space leaves the eye to insert its own idea of body. The overalls, that cover the lower body, show off that part, with the folds of the garment leading to the suggestion that something must be inside. Whereas the body inside has finished with its own outside adornments. Therefore, I discarded the garment, but the body has left its memory of what was there before. As in the Jeans and Shirt, the sculptures show off excitement, exuberance and the getting together of youth. Here the sculpture 
behaves as an emotion in three dimensions. 

I have a Studio at 106 Barkly St. St. Kilda that I share with about 12 other Artists. We hold Exhibitions of our work every year at the same time as The St. Kilda Festival. I joined Eva Ermer at the Gasworks Studio at a live painting and sculpture group. More recently I became interested in sculpture and found Barbara McLean, a gifted sculptor who has taught and inspired me for the past year or so. I have had my sculptures exhibited at Linden, Toorak Sculptor Exhibition, Pink Lady Art Exhibition, Art Gallery in Glen Huntly Rd. Elsternwick, Red Hill Art Show, Gasworks, Barbara McLean’s in Hampton, Elliot Gallery and Art Boy Gallery.