Get To Know Me

Maybe I'm just a fifty something year old that can't decide what I want to be when I grow up. Or maybe I'm a 'renaissance man' or a 'multipotentialite'. I'm really not sure about all of these labels but what I do know is that when people ask me "What do you do for a living?" it fills me with a sense of trepidation. How the heck do I answer this question? Only with great difficulty! If there is one thing I have learned about myself it is that I am driven by the desire to create. I am at my happiest when making things, working with my hands to bring new beauty into existence or expressing emotions through my music that cannot be articulated in words.

 

My visual art is inspired by the magnificent creatures that share our world; creatures that live along side us, share the environment that gives us all life, and are all too often endangered by us. Ecology, native wisdom and science have shown us beyond doubt that all creatures are related by virtue of our common ancestry and DNA. This unifying life force and truth should awaken within us a desire to conserve our wondrous, tiny blue green planet with all of its rich biodiversity and not to arrogantly hold ourselves above other species as 'superiors'.

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When the many troubles of this world get me down, then my music and art save me. They bring me sanity and peace. Somebody wise once said that the arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. I agree with that and I hope you do to. Enjoy my website.

 

Oh and a little about me: I was born in 1969, raised in Victoria Australia on Waddawarrung land where I still live on 20 acres with my wife Talia, son Patrick, border collie/kelpie cross dog Cabbage, an indeterminate number of chickens and 10 birds of prey.