My Portfolio

An exploration of portraiture with Lithography.

Familiar Faces – throughout our lives there are people who contribute to that our sense of identity. Shared experiences, and therefore memories, intertwine people and they become familiar to each other. Through drawing portraits of the familiar faces who have shared my own life, parents, family members and close friends, have enabled an exploration of sense of self and identity over this past year.

Influences, such as, lithographic portraits of the nineteenth century and the use of symbols in contemporary Aboriginal paintings came together to enable works that demonstrate a combined state of composed and expressive natures. The portraits created, using lithography as a printing technique, expresses not only a sense of self, but also of the people themselves as individuals, each with different auras and identities that have impacted on my life.

I started drawing photorealistic style portraits towards the end of school before university. I enjoy the intense studying of the face, truly learning how the face moves, how shadows sit and change, how a smile lifts your eyes, and how each blemish creates a whole story.

Watercolour has slowly become a medium I love to use, I create commissions of landscapes and houses using it and more recently have experimented more brief and flowing images using it.

See the gallery here for a selection of my different works updated regularly.

This year (2024) has allowed me time to experiment more with sketchbook work. While travelling I have accumulated some small sketches along the way – souvenirs of what I have seen. In the process it has allowed me the opportunity to learn how much more I am capable of.

See here for some small parts from my sketchbook, hopefully to be updated more regularly now!