About
Painting, Life Drawing, Printing and Sculpture Workshops at Art Station and Whitecliff College.
Painters Progress & Painter’s Studio Workshop, Art station Auckland.
Diploma in Commercial Photography Ucol Auckland.
When I was fifteen, my family moved to West Auckland to escape city life. It was through this time that my art and the photographic journey started.
My new school was incredible. The Art department and teachers provided us open opportunities to submerge into our chosen creative fields. Old school film cameras and a darkroom were my highlights.
Bethels Beach was our local photography playground; it was magic. I borrowed a film camera and spent all my savings on rolls of film to capture images for my assignments. Many hours were spent experimenting in the darkroom. I learned that there were many surprises and failures with the darkroom processes, which has given me a better understanding of the digital negative.
I am now converted to the digital age; I must admit I love the freedom to experiment with multiple images, trying not to lose the critical process of photographing with intent.
I have continued Art and Photography as a platform to explore and document my environment. Sometimes as a piece of history but more often as a vessel to tell a story or create awareness. To portray pressing issues that have touched me somehow.
