Born: Rangoon Burma 1933
Died: Perth 2016
Training and Employment
1949 – 1952 Perth technical College (Graphics)
1953 – 1958 Craft teacher Training Australian Red Cross Society Handcrafts
1958 – 1962 Craft teacher, Occupational Therapy Department Royal Perth Hospital
1972 – 1977 Art Assistant Mary’s Mount Primary School
1953 – 2010 Professional Artist
Exhibitions
1953 Adult Education Gallery Howard Street Perth
1954 Newspaper House gallery Perth
1962 Skinner Gallery Perth
1975 Skinner Gallery Perth
1977 Churchill Gallery Perth
1979 Churchill Gallery Perth
1976 Represented Undercroft Gallery UWA
1981 Represented Holdsworth Gallery New South Wales
1982 represented Perth Craft Awards Perth Concert Hall
1984 Howard Street Galleries
1984 Represented International Naïve Art Exhibition Howard Street galleries Perth
1988 Perth Galleries
1993 – 1997 Represented Gunyulgup Galleries Yallingup
1993 New Collectable Gallery Fremantle
1997 Gomboc Gallery Middle Swan Familia
1999 Exhibition at Chittering Wine Estate
2004 Mundaring Art Centre Kindred Spirits
2005 Yallingup Galleries
2008 Plum Gallery Kalamunda Heaven and Earth
Commissions and Collections
Claremont Teachers College Art Collection
Kalamunda Shire Council Art Collection
Uniting Church Floreat Art Collection
Amaroo retirement Village Gosnells Art Collection
Van Toussaint private Collection
Mazenod College Art Collection
Town of Vincent Art Collection
1979 HBF New building Perth (Foyer)
1980 St Anne’s Hospital Mt lawley (New floor)
1982 St Anne’s Hospital Mt Lawley (Foyer)
1982 St Brigids College Lesmurdie (New Library)
1983 St Brigids College Lesmurdie (Principles Office)
1983 St John of God Villa Subiaco
1984 St John of God Hospital
1993 The Commissioner of the Royal School of Church Music UK
Presented by St Georges Anglican Cathedral Choir
1994 Lockridge Catholic Church
1995 St Pauls Primary School
1996 St Norberts College Queens Park
1998 St Bernards School Kojonup
1989 Decade Mining Perth
Prizes and Awards
1995 Katanning Art Prize Highly Commended
1998 Kalamunda Centenary Art purchase Award
1999 ITC Art Prize Nedlands
1999 Katanning Art Awards Highly Commended
1999 Deus ’99 Religious Art Acquisition Awards Judges Commendation
2000 City of Albany Art Prize Regional Airport Prize Judge
2000 Bassendean Art Prize 3rd Prize
2001 City of Albany Art Prize Regional Airport Prize
2002 Town of Bassendean Art Awards First Prize
2002 Town of Vincent Highly Commended
2003 Town of Mosman Park Highly Commended
2005 City of Albany Art Prize Fellowship of Christians & the Arts Award
2006 Trinity College Old Boys Art Exhibition First Prize
2006 East Perth Redevelopment Award First Prize
2008 Bassendean Art Exhibition
2009 Kondinin Art Prize First in Iron Man Category with Hugh McDonald.
“Marvellous naïve and graphic quality. Composition has visual interest and excitement.”
Allan Dodge, Director Art gallery of WA